CABLE NEWS.

Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 510, 21 April 1880, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

MASSACRE BY AFGHANS. BRITISH FORCE OUT OFF. Calcutta, 19. Trustworthy intelligence lias been received that a force of Pathans had massacred a party of British at Quettah, including one officer, and had blocked the road between Quettah and Candahar. A detachment of troops has been ordered from Candahar to Quettah to operate against the Pathans. LOAN FOB OAMARU. London, April IG. Subscriptions have been opened for the balance of the Oamaru Waterworks Loan, to the amount of £89,000. THE BRITISH ELECTIONS. London, April IG. Sir Stafford Northcoto and the Bight Hon Lord J. Manners have been decorated with the Cross of the Order of the Bath. London, April 19. It is understood that the Beaconsfield Ministry have resigned, and that the Queen, who is on the Continent, has accepted their resignation. The Times says Mr John Bright will probably join the now Liberal Ministry. DEATH OF DR KENEALY. London, April IG. The death of Dr Kenealy, M.P. for Stoke, is announced to-day. LONDON MARKETS. _ London, April 16. New Zealand wheat is quoted at 47s to 47s Gd per 49Glbs, ox warehouse. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain is 1,910,000 quarters. Adelaide wheat has declined Is, and is to-day quoted at 57s per 49Glbs, ex warehouse. . The market for Adelaide wheat and flour is dull. Australian tallow lias advanced Gd per cwt, best beef being worth 39s Gd ; best mutton, 34s Gd, Three per cent. Consols are unchanged, at 97-J; 5 per cent. New Zealand Loan (16G9) 1010 ; 4-i- percent. New Zealand Loan (1879 1904) 99L London, April 19. Three per cent, consols, 98^-. Adelaide wheat, per 49 G lbs cx warehouse, 5Gs. Freight to New Zealand, 4G ; charged freight and insurance ox ship, 52. COLONIAL MARKETS, Adelaide, April 17. Flour is worth £lO 2s Gd per ton. TURKISII PARLTAMENT. Constantinople, April 17. The Grand Vizier has advised the Sultan to summon tho Turkish Parliament. NEW CABLE TO QUEENSLAND. Brisbane, Tuesday. It is understood that the Government have received an offer from an English company to lay a cubic from Ceylon to Point Parker, in the Gulf of Carpentaria. EPIDEMIC OF DIPTHERIA. Melbourne, Tuesday, Diptheria continues in severe form at Hamilton, and the same disease is spreading in the township of Avenel. CLOSING SYDNEY EXHIBITION. Sydney, Tuesday. The Exhibition was closed to-day by His Excellency tho Governor, in accordance with programme. There was a large concourse of people. The address delivered by Executive Commissioners stated that there were 14,009 exhibits, tho number of awards being 7,070, tho firsts being 2,753, and tho seconds 2,082. The number of admission was 1,022,000. Tho receipts since opening were under £50,000, but it is expected this sum will pay working expenses.

FIGHT WITH A GRIZZLY BEAR. A contest of an exciting diameter has recently taken place in California. A man named Alfred Ross backed himself against a grizzly for 3000 dollars. Thousands of people assembled to witness the light, a dollar apiece being charged for admission. Odds were freely laid on the grizzly. The description of what ensued is quite romantic. Wrapping a shawl around Ids arm till it was swathed to the shoulder, Ross wont into the crowd and asked a young and pretty girl to tie it tor him. She gladly did so, using her own handsome scarf, tor the purpose. Ross, in return, took a diamond ring from his linger, and, “ bowing with exquisite gallantry,” presented it to his fair patroness. Kissing Ids hand to her, the bold Ross drew his bowie, a terrible weapon, weighing four pounds and a half, and as sharp as a razor, tightened hisbclt, and Icapedinto thcarena. A innlHed shriek of horror rose from the crowd as they saw the grizzly rush at Ross. But Bruin was not in it. One quick upward blow, and the bear’s unde-jaw dropped,' cut in two. One more quick dcccndiug blow behind the shoulder, and Bruin rolled with his heart cloven in twain. Amid a storm of “ T'7««c,” his bloody bowie on the grizzly’s hide, and walked olf without.a scratch. <►- OUSTING THE CHINESE. Business is depressed in San Francisco owing to the labour agitation, and capital shows signs of withdrawing eastward. Under the new constitution, Chinese are not allowed employment in factories, mills, &c., and to enforce this, processions of white laborers have been visiting the different employers, and the interviews are marked by rude language and throats. The representatives of the working men’s party in the Legislature arc also making themselves conspicuous by resisting the Speaker and obstructing legislature. For a few days past, however, the Mayor, Kallock, Kearney, Stcinman, and other local agitators, have not been as active in stirring up strife as before, nntl this quietude is said'to be caused by a warning from the leadersof the Vigilance Gonmihtec of 1856, that property values had suffered quite enough hj this senseless turmoil.