SUEZ MAIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5372, 4 February 1879, Page 3

SUEZ MAIL.

[™ER " HERALD" SPECIAL WERE.] Invercahoill, Monday. The news brought by the Suez mail is only to December 29, while the Californian mail gave full telegraphic news to December 23, consequently the English news is almost wholly auticipated. The winter has been of unusual rigour in the United Kingdom and Europe. Signor D'Alberts, in a paper before the Royal Colonial Institute, advocating the colonisation of the southern part of New Guinea, said he preferred to see agriculturist settlers to gold prospectors. Mr. Leyning stated that negotiations were pending with the British Government on the subject of eclonisation. There i 3 a great commercial depression at Bombay, owing to the failure of M?:rsery, Ke3sowagee and Co., a large native firm. The indian chiefs have condoled with the Queen on her recent affliction. The Bombay Government have stopped all public works. Indian intelligence to January 9 states that <A the troops at Kabul, part were not inclined to fight for Shere Ali, who seems to have lost all authority. Before his flight he had sent his family and treasury to Manawarra, Northern Afghanistan. Instructions are believed to have b-'Cii given to the tribes not to oppose the advance to Kandahar, but they, afterwards, attacked I a convoy in the rear. General Brown occu- | pied Jellalabad on December 22. All the I notables met him outside. The inhabitants were friendly. They previously invited him :o put down anarchy. It is reported that Yakoob Khan has made overtures for peace co General Brown, but the latcit cable evinces renewed hostility. There is severe mortality among the army transport c imaln, owing to the frosts. It is believed that the officers of the Russian Mission fled from Kabul with the Amir of Afghanistan.