CABLEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 982, 28 September 1881, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

[From our own Correspondents]. • r London, Sept. 24. At the wool sale to-day, 8,400 bale_s were offered, anfyihe demandJfas 'firm and active. 1J ’ L - s pAnrs, fee^t. : 24. Negotiations which have been commenced here between the representatives of the Fferich and English Governments,' dfr J the subject of the Anglo-freneh commercial relations, are progressing satisfactorily, and there are hopeful sighs that"in amicable agreement will be come to. Telegrams from Tunis announce that a squadron of French Hussars now act as a guard of honor to the Bey. , > '• Calcutta, Sept 24. Telegrams have been received to-day from Candahar, reporting that a great battle was fought on Tliursday in the neighborhood of that city, between th A armies of the Ameer, and Aydub Khan, resulting in heavy losses on both sides, but in the ultimate defeat of Ayoub s troops. Of the latter, two regiments are said to have deserted, aha ■ Ayoub compelled to abandon both guns and baggage ; he has since fled with the remnant of his army to Herat, and the citadel of Candahar is now undefended: ■' •