BRITISH AND FOREIGN London, August 9th.
The Bight 80n.,W. E. Gladstone has gone to Windsor as theguest of the Dean, not the, gueßt of the Que.en. . v - • ' l> * ' August 10th. In the, -House of Commons to-day i the, Marquis of Hartington, Secretary of State for India, in replying to certain remarks which had been made regarding the ■evacuation of Cabul,' advocated the withdrawal of the -British-troops from that city. He said that.it was not now of any political importance 'that troops should remain .there, and General Sir Donald Stewart had fully concurred in the proposal to remove, them. ' - , Arrangements have been, made for. a sculling match on the Thames between E. Laycock (rf Sydney) and Blackman, forf 4>looaflide. ,> -' '
.Calcutta, August 10th. Intelligence Ms been received from Candahar to the tftii inst.' GenerarPrimrose'reports that the citadel is in a'complete,, .state of defence, and that he is provisioned for ,25 ', clays. Ayoiib Khan, with- the bulk of his army, is encamped at Kokoran, near. Candahar. , .
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Otago Witness, Issue 1500, 14 August 1880, Page 15
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