OUR SPECIALS.

Auckland Star, Volume IX, Issue 2713, 2 January 1879, Page 2

OUR SPECIALS.

Submission of Now Ameer.

LO N D ON, Decern her 27. Yakoob Khan, sou of the late Ameer, Shore All, has arrived at Jellalabad, and has submitted to the .British.

REUTER'-S cr''"'tL CABLEGftAMS.]

Great Fire at .cr<mgkong.

A Skip Burnt at Se<». The Cape Difficulty. The * Sydney Exhibition. LONDON, December 28. Tin- pula.je oi the Khedive of Egypt atj Abdive was partttlly destroyed by fire. A destructive lire at Hong Kong com tinned for two days, and destroyed a larg extent of property. Theship Noitaaniptonbound f-romLoiuto. to Sydney, wa» destroyed by fire, but th crew and passengers were saved. j A message from the Governor ot La]' Colony asks tie Otaways to disband the army, cede S;. Lucia Bay, and receive * English Resident at their Court. > , Greek Comuissioners have been appoint! to consider tte question of the rectificatin of the frontier Yakoob Kian has arrived at the citjbf Jellalabad, aid this is regarded as a sigvof submission. The Sydmy Exhibition Committee hid a meeting or the 20th ultimo, and It ras announced tint a large number ef Gerian and Austrim exhibitors have applietfor space in theforthcomiug Exhibition. The Freudi Government has set dovn in

the Budge! 115,000 francs to assist the French cxlibitors. Tho San Francisco mail arrived, ancjwas delivered oi the 24th ult.