CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 34, 24 December 1878, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

(nEUTEU's SPECIAL TO FBESS AGENCY.) Loxdon, December 18. Speaking in the House of Commons, the Home Secretary admitted that great distress prevailed in Great Britain ; bul added that ho believed the reports to bo exaggerated. The motion of the Under Becre« tary for India, making the Afghan war chargeablo on tho Indian Exchequer, was carried by 235 votes to 125. Both Houses have adjourned until the 13th February, for the Christmas holidays. December 20. In a great storm in the Sea of Marmora a Fiench steamer was sunk through collision, and 150 persons were drowned. There is &n agitation among the students iu St Petersburg in consequence of a change in the classes. The mi'itary were called out and dispersed the crowd. Many arrests have been made, and rigorous measures adopted. I A Liberal candidate has been Selected by a great majority for the coanty of Deny. j At a meeting of the committee of i the Sydney Exhibition, it was stated i that France had applied for immense space. The Chimborazo has anived at Suez. Jm£ Bomuay, December 21™ General Brown hopes to occupy Jellalabad to-day. Sydney, Sunday. Reports of the flight of the Ameer are still current. It is stated that he Iwft Yakoob Khan in power. The brig Iserbrook, badly injured by fire, was scuttled. The captain was killed, and the mate seriously burnt by an explosion. She was insured for £1000 not stated.) The miners at Wollongong have resolved to coal the A.S.N. Go's steamers. Mediation in reference to the strike : has again failed.