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Grey River Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 3251, 17 January 1879, Page 2

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London, Dec. 23. Parliament was convened the 25th in it. The debate on the address, after Bharp criticisms by the leading Liberals of Lo :d Lytton's course of action towards tle Ameer, it was resolved that war havi lg been commenced, such war, if necessa ry for security of India, must be conduct id vigorously. The address passed witho it a division.

Roberts gained a complete victory ovpr the Ameer's forces on the sth instaqt, capturing Khotal with slight loss, and all Afghan cannon. The British loss was 80 killed and wounded ; the Afghan loss is very heavy. Captain Kelso and Majpr Anderson are among those killed, aiid General Gobbe and |Lieutenant Munro are amongst the wounded. !

A gigantic strike of 10,000 men is threatened at the commencement of the year in Bouth Yorkshire and north Derbyshire. The Duke of Cumberland and Princess Thyra were married on the 21st at Christianborg Castle. i A man named Madden was arrested in London for uttering threats against the Queen. San Francisco, Dec. 23. : A telegram announces that Edison has perfected a machine for measuring the current in use in electric tight, and his invention for counteracting the loss in subdivision is complete. The reduction of cost now engages his attention. It is rumored that the Pacific Mail Company will withdraw from the Australian route. Jonathan Reid, managing partner of the private bank of J. and J . Fentpn and Sons, Rochdale, England, lost 3,000,000 dollars of the bank's money by speculating on the Stock Exchange. The Czarina was delivered of a son at St. Petersburgh on the sth December. Lady Gooch was committed for trial for attempting to pass a bogus baby upon Sir Francis as his son and heir, but the Grand Jury ignored the bill. Suliman Pasha is sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment, tie has appealed. The Chinese legation is organising a Press bureau to influence public opinion in America. Already several eastern papers are heavily subsidised, also the Alta California and several other papers of the Pacific slope. A special American correspondent is to be sent to China, accompanied by a Chinese editor of a Chinese newspaper in San Francisco. The Chinese Empire is to be open to the correspondent, who will be in charge of officials during his stay in the Country. Money is no object. Some time before the death of the Princess Alice, the physicians recognised that the case was hopeless, and sent secret messages to that effect to England. Symptoms of suffocation appeared at one o'clock on Saturday morning, but were temporarily removed. The Grand Duke was induced to leave his room, but his mother remained administering to the Princess until the last.