CABLE NEWS
RECEIVED LAST NIGHT. ( Reuter's Despatches to the Mau.) GENERAL GRANT. Washington, 7th. President Hayes has made a recommendation to the Cabinet that General Grant should be appointed Commander-in-chief of the United States army, a post at present nominally filled by the President. PACIFIC TELEGRAPH CABLE. New York, 7th. A project is on foot for the construction of a cable to belaid from San Francisco to Australia, via the Sandwich Islands. RUSSIAN WAR SHIPS. San Francisco, 7th. Five Russian war vessels stationed in the Pacific have sailed from different ports to Japan. The object of their mission has not transpired. MR PARNELL. London, 6th. A largely attended meeting under the auspices of the Irish Land League was held yesterday at Waterford. A host of prominent agitators were present and addressed the meeting. Mr Parnell made a speech on the occasion, and spoke bitterly against the action of the present Government, accusing it of having conspired against the rights of the people of Ireland. London, 7ill. Mr Parnell has been presented with freedom of the city of Waterford, Ireland. GRAIN ICE-BOUND. New York, 6th. Owing to the extreme severity of the winter, five million bushels of grain are now ice-bound in Lake Erie.
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Patea Mail, 9 December 1880, Page 2
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