LATEST TELEGRPHIC

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 366, 17 January 1880, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRPHIC

♦ • [from our own correspondent! WELLINGTON. Friday. Levin, M.H.R,, interviewed Ministers yesterday re Wellington public works and received satisfactory assurances as to their intentions, for plans are in preparation for the Resident Magistrate's Court and Police Barracks. Plans are also being prepared for additions to the Lunatic Asylum. The railway terminus wir be gone on with at once. The Ohambor of Commerce and the City Council are urging the Government to the active prosecution of works on the Wellington-Foiton railway. Mansford, R.M., returned from the south this morning and took his seat on the Bench. It is rumored that in consequence of the dullness of the coastal trade, the Union Company intend laying up three steamers. In the Supreme Court .in the case of Smith v Moody, damages for breach of agreement, a verdict for plaintiff was returned. LONDON. January 15. The inhabitants of Cabul profess their inability to pay the line imposed upon them by General Itolwts. A liirgn liinly (if recently defeated KnhistiUis again concentrated their forces i.i the iiuigliliiirli.iiiil nf ilnj KhylierPiiss a,id made;. determined atluiu, tto cut off British Kiinmuiiiuiitions with Peshawur, Several attacks have been made on Daka and Landi Klmna, which are reported td be in considewhle danger, Disastrous storms and floods are rep'ited to have taken place at the Island of St Kilts, West Indies. Uver two hundred inhabitants we e drowned. A great deal of damage was done to crops and property, and there is much distress in consequence. Duke Frederick Christian Augustus Sehleswig Holstein (brother-in-law of , Prince Christian, son-in-law of the Queen) i is dead, 1 After a protracted hearing Garibaldi's , divorce suit has ended, the Court, on i Garibaldi's application, declaring the mar" ' riago null and void. j Serious riots have occurred atPesth, i Hungary, owing to the distress of the in- c habitants, which was greatly increased by t the recent inundation, 1;