CABLE MESSAGES. THE WAIMATE PLAINS.

Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 495, 28 January 1880, Page 2

CABLE MESSAGES.

THE WAIMATE PLAINS.

0 rßiamviFfi Tklkoua.ms. [ ST. PETERSBURG. January 26. There is a serious deficiency in Russian wheat crops, and the export of corn lias so largely decreased that the expediency of the importation of American grain is being discussed. LONDON. January 2G. With reference to the speech of the First. Lord of the Admiralty at Sutton last week, it now transpires that it is proposed that the British troops in Afghanistan shall retire from Cabul to Jetlallabad, anil the appointment of British Envoy at Cabul will probably be waived. Public belief in rumour recently circulated, that a frontier province Would be formed bei ween Kyber and the Kurnum, is strengthened now the above iajts have transpired. NEW YORK. January 26. Parnell, Irish agitator, made a violent speech to-day, in which lie denounced the formation of Irish Relief Funds, because they would not afford aid to rent defaulters. The latter, lie said, claimed separate nationality, and tiie landlords must therefore give way. SYDNEY. January 27. A man named Coulthard, aged 28, has surrendered himself to the police at Yass, stating that in January, 1878, while he was a chemist at Evert-on, England, lie poisoned his wife with prussic acid, weighted the body, and threw it into the Mersey. He shortly afterwards emigrated to Australia, and now asserts he is wretched, and sees a vision of his wife nightly.

Tim New Zealander, hitherto a vary strong opponent to the present Government, comments thus on the. roadmaking proposal :—We may state that the road-making about to be entered upon will be esseiuialiy in the interests of pence. In conjunction with the recent removal of the prisoners and the appointment of the Royal Commission, it has been undertaken to convince wavering natives, and especially the Hatimarus, that the Government is a stronger power than Te Whiti, ami until this is done there will be no chance of breaking up what may be termed the To Whiti confederation. The object of the Government in fact is to pluck the *• flower safety from the nettle danger, ” and to accomplish this the latter has to be fi.unly It is not often that we credit the Hall-Atkinson iraternity with good intentions, but in this instance we. shall depart from our usual course, and admit they are doing their best to unravel, and that peacefully, a very tangled skein. Every precaution is to taken to preserve peace.”