CABLE TELEGBAMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1155, 17 January 1874, Page 13

CABLE TELEGBAMS.

London, December 29th. The Duke of Edinburgh has started for St. Petersburg. His marriage takes j)lace next month. December 31st. The fall in the price of coal still continues. Cape Coast advices to the 15th December Btate that General Wolsely with five hundred sailors and marines had advanced 70 miles towards the Prah River, pursuing the Ashantees. January Ist. The steamship Somersetshire put into Valparaiso to repair damages received during a gale. The P. and O. Co. 's new steamer Ellora arrived from Adelaide on Thursday night. The Archbishop of Canterbury will perform the marriage ceremony of the Duke of Edinburgh at St. Petersburg. A distinguished party is proceeding there. Mr Miall intends retiring from Parliament on its dissolution, owing to ill health. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is expected in London. The vexed question as to opening the School Board meetings with prayer has been re- opened. The Lancet thinks that the polluted air in court is telling on the health of the jurymen in the Tichborne case. Eight lives were sacrificed at Lambeth during preparations for the celebration of Guy Fawkes Day. The Russian Government have presented the town of Sheffield with a collection of Continental cutlery. Abd el-Kader has died, aged 70. The Prussian Government are organising a flotilla of light draught iroa-clads for the defence of the Rhine. January 3rd. The Caffre troubles in Natal continue. January 4th. Cape Coast ad vices to December 16th, state that Captain Glover has abandoned the Volta River expedition and joined Sir Garnet Wolselcy, and the two have determined to land reinforcements, and commence the march upon Coomassie, by January 3rd. The Hon. Captain A. Chartels, late of the Coldstream Guards, and aide-de-camp to General Wolseley, is dead. January sth. A reduction in the present rate of discount is expected. January 6th. The grain stocks at British ports are scanty. Paris, December 22nd. The French Government have sent a circular to the Bishops concerning Pastorals. Berlin;, December 29th. The German Emperor is convalescent. Berlin, December 30th. The Prussian Order of Merit has been conferred on Thomas Carlyle. New York, December 22nd. The survivors of the Virginiua expedition have been released* and armed. December 30th. The Virginius while being towed to New York foundered off Cape Clear. Majorio, December SOfch. A polities crisis W occurred rt JWn*

January 3rd. In a message to the Cortes, Senor Castelar declared that the abolition of slavery was urgently required. General Moriones is marching on Bilbao, in the vicinity of which twenty thousand Carlists are concentrated. Senor Castelar having been twice outvoted in the Cortes, General Havila, the acting military authority, dissolved that body and summoned a meeting of the leaders of all parties, excepting Carlists and lutransigentes, to form a new Ministry. January 4th. Marshal Serrano has been appointed Chief of the Spanish Executive. A new Ministi-y has been formed, composed equally of Radicals and Conservatives. The change has been accomplished without disturbance. January sth. Marshal Serrano has suspended the Constitutional guarantees, and disarmed the Republican Volunteers. Serious fighting between the Carlists and Republicans has taken place at Saragossa. General Moriones being unable to ad^ance his army in the direction of Bilbao re-em-barked at Santona. St. Petersburg, January 14th. The Duke of Edinburgh has arrived from London. New York. The papers fear the coming winter. It is expected it will be the hardest ever experienced. Retrenchment is the universal , watchword. Thousands of seamstresses and , servants have been thrown out of employI ment.