TELEGRAMS.
ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.
London, Sept. 6.
The grape crops in France have virtually Jailed. Brandies are advanced 6d per gallon. The market is excited, and a rise of 3s is expected. Three per cent Consols are at 07f. The total Reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England is L 20,750,000. The New Zealand five per cent loan is at 101 ex dividend. At the wool sales to-day, 7200 bales were catalogued.. For fine qualities_a good demantjl, but medium and inferior wore 'neglected; :* 4 - Lord Harling'to’n, in his farewell address, advocatedan enquiry into the working of the land laws, and an amendment of the existing Statutes, if found necessary.
News from A rghamstan states that <t unpaid native troops suddenly a>tack! the British Residency.., The e-cort nia| a desperate defence of the budding. b| were burnt. It is believed, that ever* body pertaining fq the mission was ma! sacred. The Lrifish immediately i s-orj pied t'ue Afghan passes, and Gm f' Roberts was directed lo relieve,{fie The Home Rulers’ agifa< ion in E&L, is causing great uneasmess. The Janwffe used. By them oh the public platform'”* most seciijous, and ca'cuJafcd to provokf violence, ' Tnc* Pyess unanimously anil strongly'urges the; Government to ijse repressure measures, p.*.,- _| la- addressing a > political meeting, thd Maifpiis of Ha; tington insisted on a com- L i plete revision of the landlord and tenants! positions as permanent remedy* for the agricnlttifauclepressicn. I The S\ved|iffi%ExploriQg Expedition has| discovered a nqrth-east passage through? the Polar Sea 1 ♦ S
The Syndicate of the Associated Bank; \ are opposed lo the issue of the new Bank’f of New South Wales loan, and it is pro-1 ! buble that tenders for it will be postponed I The Grecian currant.crop is good,, noth' new currants are selling; at 25s to 30a per*" cwt. if The wool market shows no material 4 alteration. The prices and the bidding \ are regular.* The Homo demand is still 1 restricted td only good combing greasy, I All other.sorts are a penny to twopence } below the Jufie closing.rates. i The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile ! - Agency Company have received the fol- I lowing ( telegram, dated London, Sept. 4 : i wool market superior greasy }■ has advanced -|d to Id per lb.; crossbred _**’ are ur.c^ttged; scoured are also unchanged ; vkhed combing sorts are firmer. 1 Dp to bales were sold, V Eighteen bales were' withdrawn during the * - Calcutta, Sept. 6. Intelligence of a most serious mutiJby ; amongst the native, troops comes frofep. Cabul. All the Mission were Lord Lytton has telg graphed to the War Office that he ha| ordered* an immediate advance on Cabul •with'a yievft of permanent Major CaVagnart is,believed to be amongst* ■those slaughtered. Colonel Roberts is! concentrating his troops on Cabul. • | St Petersburg, Sept G, 1 Disastrous floods are reported from! several interior districts. | : • Bombay, Sept. 6. ! A violent mutiny’ baa broken out amongst the ah Cabul. The mutineers were ioined by the inhabitants, and afta.ked and fired the- British Residency. The Ameer. Yakoob Khan, who did his best-to quell the rebellion, was besieged j in his palace. The fate of the British I Embassy is unknown. The British ad- | vance force at'Shelter and Gordon Passes, I under General Roberts, will immediately | advance on Cabul. General Steward has I been orderef to hold Gandahar andKyber I Passes., -.Another force will operate on | Jellaiabad. I J . Sept. 7. I A reliable native Ireports having seen | the:, bodies of British officers at Cabul. | Nine nf the British Resident’s escort have i escaped.- -j : , - British troops are advancing on Cabul | from all directions. No memßryjll bo - shown to the Afghans or ' f It is believed that” Major Cavagnari, the A British Resident, has-been murdered. * It is also believed that Yakoi b Khan is \ at the bottom of the plot. rs_, v Yienna, Sept 4. '" ffiba'AMstrian troops have entered Nova ' ami met with favorable reception • s front the!inhabitants. They made a re- f connaissauce before entering the toivn. Athens, Sept. 4. !
The Greek frontier negotiations are 1 progressing r'.owly. The Porte has' not ■* accepted the protocol of the congress as a basis for the negotiations.
AMERICAN CABLE.
Quebec, Sept. 6. The Government of Quebec has declined to be dismissed on the ground that such a course is unconstitutional. Lord Lome has issued a proclamation apptyiug for an Act for the prevention of ciimes of violence in the city of Quebec.
GREAT FIRE IN DUNEDIN.
Dunedin, Sept, 8. if One of the most terrible calamities-' | which ever o -curved in Dunedin happened * I this morning ai the Octagon, when v Waters’ Cafe (Ross’ Buddings) took fire I about 2.30. Next the Cafe -was the shop ■ I of Mrs Wilson, wife of the editor of the J 1 Witness.’ The block, numbering somor-| few shops and outbuildings, was a'l thickly;/ peopled, and as Die whole of" the lower part was in flames before being | escape was impossible for the majority.^ It is known that -Wilson’s family, num-j bering tea person’s, are all lost exceptingM two, one of whom >Jumped out of a dow, and it is feared is injured recovery. From the’ statement niacm by dj a person who escaped by lowering him** ri self with a clothes line, it would appear f that a nunibbr of persons were lying in the y passage through which he had to grope, }■ apparently suffocated. The few persons : 'j who escaped are bad’y cut and injured, i One man who leaped from the fie pavement was killed. The whole y block of buildings is gutted, ; but as the | fire is still raging and the excitement intense, it is impossible to ascertain any- j. thing with acmraey. t Tlie fire originated in the cafe. __ Several jumped from t o windows both trout acd back.- Margaret MO.irihy was shouteo Vi to by tbo crowd to jurap'&om the third _ y story window. Ine stru k a projection o\'er the main entrance, and was carried away insensible and badly nruised. Eventually a long ladder ' was obtained, mid a■- I number were rescued. A Urge nuiaoer , of boarders who slept'within ilw building were seen wanueri' g about quite bo- . , • wildered. They at length broke into a ' room used for drying clot lies, where they found a cloth os line, and ti of s | them escaped in that way. Ibe block is almost entirely dust 7 escape did not arrive till ton laxcyFm of :i service. David Cotuv.-ij jumped irom one of the storeys and was severely injured by the fall, and also lu''-u;. Maggie Me-.:, Carthy was caught in the sheet. Several y others who jumped out were severely s injured. Two of A’.’sens children \vho jumped out wore badly burnt and bruised. < , It is feared (bar the injuries in one of y thoir cases wi 1 pv<i\v fd d. A together 1 six persons, including ihe one who died from his mj u'L.k, iuve boon u.-ken to the g horpital. ' ji
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