TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 281, 14 August 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN

London, Aug. 9

The Right Hon.W. E Gladstone has gone to Windsor as the guest of the Dean, uul the guest of the Queen.

Aug. 10

In llio House of Commons to-day tin* Mur pus of Hardugton, secretary of State fur India, in replying to certain remarks which had been made legarding theevacnation of Cabul, advocate ! the withdrawal of the British troops from that city. He said that it was not now of any political importance that troops should remain there, and General Sir Donald Stewart hud tally concurred i n the proposal to remove them. Arrangements have been made for a sculling match on the Thames betwe n E. Laycock (of Sydney) and Blackman fur Lloo aside.

Consols, Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 49s 6d, market quieter. Best beef tallow, 34s 6d ; best mutton, 36s 6d. The tallow maiket is firm. No. 7 Scotch pig iron, f.o.b. in the Clyde, 52s 9d. The price of wheat is declining, owing to the finer weather which is now prevailing throughout England. Harvest operations are progressing rapidly, and from present indications it it expected that the English crops will be below the average. Heavy shipments of wheat con tine to arrive from America Aug 11.

Tricket has returned from Scotland, and is now at Putney. He is practising in a boat which he brought from Aus - tralia. News has been received that the steamer Jeddah, bound to Singapore with a thousand pilgrims from Jeddah, foundered during a heavy gale off Cape Guardufui. All on board perished except twentyone. Calcutta, Aug. 10. Intelligence has been received from Candahar to the 6th inst. General rimrose reports that the citadel is in a complete state of defence, and that he is provisioned for 25 days. Ayoub Khaii with the hul kof his army, is encamped at Kokoran, near Candahar, Aug. 11. News has been received from Cabul that General Roberts, with his force 10,000 men, u arched thirteen or fifteen miles on Monday, and he is pushing on as rapidly as possible towards Candahar. Rejoicings have taken place in the priocipul Afghan towns, over Abrlur Rahman Khan’s accession to the Ameership.

Constantinople, Aug 1.

Mr Goschen, the British Ambassador has declared to A bed din Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, that the Great Powers will not consent to any change in the Turko-Greek frontier, as fixed by the Berlin Conference.