SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5522, 27 October 1879, Page 2

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Adelaide, Friday, ' K Parliament is to be /ptdrdgned t<H/ morrow. The Totalisator Bill has passed*

(special- to " EYENma post."} -•■;•'•'■'" / Loiirdo^, October 20V ; ; A fearful disaster, accompanied by great loss of life, has occurred, at ;oatnlfr" .From some cause not yet explained, the magazine in the Citadel of BalaHissar.,exploded. Thirty of the English soldiers, ?; occupying the citadel, were" killed/ to--'---gether with a large number of Afghans/:' i The P. and O. mail steamer Australia, - which left Southampton on the 17th October, carrying the outward Australian "k mails, broke her main, shaft when entering the Bay of Biscay, and is now returning to port to repair the damage; . ."' Chinese immigration has been" strongly condemned by the popular vote 7 "in California, and the Legislature 1 has been ; urgently called upon to take som^ effectual action to oope with the evil.- j JThe delations between Abyssinia and Egypt, which for a considerable time have been veiy strained, have now been placed on an amicable- footing, the differences between the two States' having^ ; ' been mutually adjusted.

(Received at 2.45 o'clock this morniiUj.) (reuter's telegrams^): „. r - 1 Calcutta, October^.The Ghilzais assembled at .Kushi^taye assumed a threatening aspect. General Roberts has taken precautionary measures. .