CABLEGRAMS.
LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. (rectxer's telegram per press association.) London, January 19. Parliament will be opened next session by the Queen in person. The death is announced to-day of Duke de Grammont, French diplomatist, age 60 years. A meeting of the unemployed was held in London to-day, at which resolutions were passed demanding that the Government should.initiate public relief works. (SPECIAL TO THE MELBOURNE AGE.) London, January 19. The British annexation of the Gold Coast has offended the French Press. <> —— DIRECT AUSTRALIAN NEWS. (SPECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Adelaide, January 19. Sufficient shipping to carry grain to England is unprocurable. Freights have greatly risen. (kettter's telegram, per press association .) - Sydney; January 20i Edward Trickett, the champion rower, has announced his intention of proceeding to England to row Hanlon, the Canadian sculler. ; i - • '•> . | - ■ TORRES STRAIT MAIL. . • Cooktown, January 20. The Eastern mail- steamer Somerset has arrived from Singapore and Hong Kong, with ■ the: Torres Strkit mails. The latest news'from the East states that a serious cattle plague'is'teeing 1 round Shanghai. A violent shock of earthquake has been experienced at Yokohama, by which a number off buildings, were ; destroyed or injured. .
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1173, 20 January 1880, Page 2
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