CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 58, 18 March 1879, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

TELEGRAM 3.)'

London, March 12.

The Russian Government has issued a circular note to the Powers, pointing out certain questions regarding the Treaty of Berlin, which, being scill undecided, may lead to fresh local disturbances. -

Adelaide, Thursday. Cape papers of 22nd February are to hand. They state that the destruction of the head camp at Isandawana was caused through the absence of the cavalry and through mismanagement of the forces. There were 800 Europeans, who hadjplenty of ammunition and artillery, and they should have been in an entrenched position when 20,000 Zulus attacked them. Tae natives are greatly elated at their success, and a decisive victory on the part of the English is necessary to establish the superiority of the whites. Melbourne, Friday. Graham Berry repudiates the assertion of Patterson, the Minister of Public Works, that the banks and the Argus have leagued to-gether to lower the credit of the colony. Sydney, Friday.

The Legislative Assembly last night passed by 41 votes to 2, a farewell address to Governor Robinson, expressing approval of his administration of the Government of New South Wales.

Kerosene, diamond and Devoe's, Is. Bd. to Is. 9d. ; Adelaide wheat, ss. to ss. 3d. Flour, rice, tobacco, sugar, and New Zealand wheat and oats unchanged.