NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

North Otago Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2108, 4 February 1879, Page 3

NEWS BY THE SUEZ MAIL. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

The following is the news brought by • the Saw mail. The dates are only. to December 29, while the Californinn mail gives full telegraphic news to the 23rd, -■ oowequently the English news is almost wholly anticipated.

sirausjr news. The winter set in unusually rigorously • in the tFnited Kingdom nnd Europe. A deputation of Anglo-Califdrni«ns congratulated Earl Beaconsfield on the success of the Eastern policy. The approaching Australian exhibition if attracting much attention in England, xhd Globe has published a series of exhaustive articles upon the colony, supposed to be written by the Agent4t General, s^k Mr Hughes Bea, assistant master of T)ulwich (Allege, has been appointed l*rofesaor of Classics at Adelaide University. ■ The Council of India has decided to increaae the native army by 15,000. The "Viceroy of India has assured the Maharajah of Cashmere that his contingent 'Would bo used if the Afghan war extended beyond the spring. All important Sikh, Rajpcot, nnd Mahomedan chiefs have placed their swqrds at the disposal * if tfmOj»ieen. There ii great commercial depresoson in Bombay, owing to the failure of Nur'sey Kessowjee and Co., a large native firm. -' Indian, chiefs hare condoled with the , Qupen on her recent affliction. r > The Bombay Government has stopped . all public works. I

THE AFGHAN WAR. I " Indian intelligence to January 9 states that eight regiments of infantry are at tCabul, but are not inclined to fight- for Shere Ali, who seems to have lost all authority. Before his flight it is said he ' sent his family and treasure to Maimiana, in Northern Afghanistan. Instructions are believed to have been given to the tribes not to oppose the advance on Candahas, but afterwards to attack the con- , Toys in the rear. General Browne occupied Jellalabad on December the 22nd. All the notables met him outside. The inhabitants are friendly. - The health of the European troops is good, but the cold is trying to the natives. It it reported that Yakoob Khan made overtures of peace to General Browne, but the latest cable reports renewed hostilities. Severe mortality is reported among the army transports and camels, owing to the frosts. It is believed that the remaining officers of. the Russian Mission fled from Cabul with the Ameer. ' The Afghan Master of the Horse has -been poisoned by a follower.

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