LATEST TELEGRAMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5395, 3 March 1879, Page 5

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[BY CABLE.] [from oite, o"vr>- correspondent.] London, February 28. The Zulus are concentrating to evade the Hatal river. Tulza, which is unfordablo. February 27. The extraordinary credit rote asked for •was unanimously carried. The estimates for the navy are £10,5G2,500, shewing a decrease of £150,000. February 28. The outbreak of the plague at St. Petersburg is untrue. February 29. The Queen visits Italy, meo{/m7o, at the end of March, for a .'short stay. Magc.ioue, Tago (Oape Towx), Feb. 11. I The British act strictly on the defensive. The frontier is quiet. The colours of the 21th Regiment have been recovered. The Boers of Transvaal refuse to assist the British. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.] Sydney, March 1. The show of sheep and swine in connection with the International Exhibition is appointed to take place in the last week of September ; for cattle, in the first week of December ; for fat stock, on the 19th December ; and for horses, in the last .week of December. [In reference to the above, fixing the dates of the special shows iu connection with the Sydaey Exhibition, we quote the following from the Sydney Mail:—"A communication has been received from the Australasian Sheep-breeders' Association of Victoria, intimating their desire to take part in the sheep show, aud askiug for information with reference to the proposed special show of wool. The probable dates of the special shows in connection with the Exhibition will be—for sheep, somewhere about the latter end of September; for lionr and vegetables, October ; for poultry and birds, November ; for cattle and fat stock, December ; for horses, January. The only date definitely fixed is that for the special show of wool, which is to take place in December. Despatches, with all information, are being sent home, by the out-going mails, to the London Commission, sad the Kxecutivo Commissioner has put himself iu communication with the Socictc d' Agriculture in Paris, of which he is an honorary life member, giving them information in reference to the .Exhibition, and asking their co-operation/ ] Mr. Watt has been elected President of the Chamber of Commerce. Melbourne., March 1. A railway porter has been killed by a train at Footscray. The Woods' break is blamed. The Leger was won by Bosworth.