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Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1524, 6 January 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

C3ABLE_NEWS. SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE. Riot at Kief, Later from Afghanistan, London, Undated. On the 28th of December a letter was written by the Queen expressing her heartfelt thanks for the universal sympathy expressed for her in her aflUctiQn, A p-ot has been discovered to assassinate the Emperor of Austria. A difficulty has arisen about the British jurisdiction in Cyprus, Italy contesting. Bismarck has written a letter to the President of tho Federal Council advocating a protectionist policy. December 30. The report of the arrival of Yakoob Khan at Jellalabad is confirmed. The marriage of the Dukd of Connaught is fixed for March 13 th. The Chimborazo arrived at Plymouth on the 13th. Money market easier. Bank minimum unchanged. Market rate—Three months bills, si. Banks' reserve slightly bolter, owing to holidays. Tho stock market is active. Consols have risen £ per cent. Australian securities temporarily weakened by the announcement of a new colonial loan. Victorian Fours, 92. Wheat is unchanged. January 4. On December 30l;h, serious University riots took place at Kief, or Kiev, a Kusßian town on the west bank of the Dnieper, in which eighty students were killed. Major-General Roberts, from Durbared (?), statea that the frontier chiefs havo announced that henceforth they will recognise England as their sovereign power. AUSTRALIAN. [Per Wakatipu.J Tho s.s. Wakatipu arrived last night bringing later news to the 31st : A Brisbano telegram Bays Mr Goldie has discovers 1 men with tails in New Guiue'B. Ho saw a whole tribe with bonis and tails composed of cassowary feathers and grass. Tho " Queenslander" and "Courier" ©nice had a narrow escape frpin destruction through a gas explosion.

Pour Chinamen were arrested at Yam Creek charged with murder. Two were leaders in the Palmer riots. In South Brisbane two white men first thrashed a Chinaman, and then thrust him partly into a vessel of boiling _ water, scalding him fearfully about the extremities. MELBOURNE. An attempt was made to blow up a bakery at Colac by placing a quantity of gunpowder in an oven. A. boy was a good deal injured, and it is feared he will lose his sight. It is reported from Alexandra that the Kelly's have been located in a hut in the Switzerland ranges for some days, and that the police have been travelling a few miles from them. It is said that this report is confirmed by the fact that four horsemen have been seen galloping before daylight towards Alexandra, and within eight miles of the township. The female attire sometimes referred to is accounted for as having been worn by Steve Harb, who is in. the habit of coming into the township so attired. The "Argus" is sending home special commissioners to accompany the embassy. Adelaide. A man named Gallagher was committed for trial for setting fire to a house. The evidence showed he made improper proposals to a woman while her husband was away, and, being refused, set fire to tho house out of revenge. A disturbance occurred at a Catholic picnic at Wallaroo, owing to the Irish harp being carried in front of the Union Jack. The Mayor of Kadina, thinking the act illegal, remonstrated, and the police subsequently interfered - and roughly used one Casford, who lost the use of his speech some time afterwards. He is still dumb, but it is supposed from drink and excite' ment. Newcastle. Henry Augustus Scott, a half-caste, shot a man in a drunken quarrel at the Shipwright'sArms. The crew of the La Perouse, seven in number, were picked up in an open boat. They were barely able to save their clothes when the vessel foundered.