NEWS BY CABLE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5565, 29 January 1879, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

(REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.)

Bombay, January 27. Yakoob Khan has seized the fort aud family of the chief Babeka. The Khela and other tribes at Ghulgee have recommenced hostilities against the British troops. London, January 25. Reports from the Cape state that Oetewayo, up to the 6th instant, had failed to reply to the ultimatum, and it is evident that be intends to fight. The British commander waits till the 11th to receive a complete submission, meanwhile preparations are being made to cross the frontier, January 26. Arrangements have been made to establish a National Bank of Egypt, with a capital of £4,000,000.

London, January 27.

The trial of the Glasgow Bank directors continues. The case for the prosecutio n closed to-day. The charges of theft and embezzlement have been abandoned.

Berlin, January 26,

Germany is prepared to mobilise 80,000 men for the purpose of establishing a sanitary cordon along her Russian frontier, to prevent the introduction of the plague.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. rREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) Melbourne, January 27. A peculiar case has occurred of a woman dying of pregnancy, after a suspicious attempt to procure abortion being made by a wellknown surgeon. The body has been exhumed, and an inquest is impending. A slight accident occurred on the Gippsland railway on Saturday night. Several passengers were bruised. McLaren, an agitator from New Zealand, was denounced at a meeting of unemployed as being engaged in Sydney during the strike to collect hands for the A.S.N. Company to replace the seamen on strike. The meeting expelled him ignominously. A female child from the Queensland Orphanage, who was out in service, has died, and an examination shows that death was the result of ruptured liver. External bruises also were found on her body. Elizabeth Ellis, her employer, has been charged with manslaughter. Sydney, Tuesday.

The Englishmeu lost two wickets for 17. Charles Bannerman split his hand between the first aud second fingers in fielding a ball bard hit to mid wicket, and is disabled. New South Wales has two wickets down for 83 runs. A Bannerman made 15 and Thompson 9. Murdoch and Massie are playing steadily, both not out. About 15,000 poople are present. Later.—The New South Wales team lost five wickets for 226 runs, winning by five wickets and one run ; Massie, not out, 78; O. Bannerman, not out, 60.