CABLE MESSAGES.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 410, 22 March 1879, Page 2

CABLE MESSAGES.

[Rectkh’s Telegrams.] MELBOURNE. March 21. Notwithstanding the efforts of the police, a prize fight between Hicken and Foley came off to-day. • Hicken was beaten, and Severely punished, , There are-no passengers for New Zealand by Suez mail steamer. , SUEZ MAIL NEWS. LONDON. -. '• 1 ' ■ '■** J ’ February! 5. There is a terrible gloom in the country at; ZuW disaster. 'Co'ttst<iruutidn prevails ‘at thjs heavy'l'b9s, : and stent deterntfnatiort .- isahbwn to redeem the honor of the British ariuy, and inflict a signal and lasting lesson; Troops have been ordered from Mauritius. The Premier, in the House of Lords last night, at the opening of Parliament, said the progress of the Treaty of Berlin was highly gratifying. He defended the Sultan against attacks, and eulogised Layard. In referring to Afghanistan affairs, he declared that India henceforth would be invulnerable. Sir Stafford Northcote, in the House of Commons, alluded to the difficulty consequent on the d : sappearance of the Ameer, and maintained that India would bo able to bear actual expenditure of the war. It is expected England will shortly lend two millions sterling to Indian Government, free of interest. Sentence on Glasgow Bank Directors is generally considered inadequate.