LATEST CABLE NEWS.
♦ [prom our own correspondent.] LONDON. Mon'dfiy. The t'»tal quantity of wheat afloat for (Ureat Biitain is 1,700,000 quarters. At the wool sales to-day, 6,300 bales were catalogued. The tone of the market is firmer.* Sir Stafford Nnrthcote, m a speech supporting the candidature of his son for Exeter, insisted upon the maintenance of unity between Great Britain and the colonies. Be deeply deplored the massacre at Cabul, and stated that Major Cava^nari died nobly at his post, and his death was a serious loss to the nation. BOMBAY. Tuesday. The defence of the British Residency at Cabul was stubborn and attended with grett lo*s to the attacking party. An unsuccessful attempt was made by them to storm the building ; finally they fired the doorway, swarmed m and killed the defenders. Military preparations against Oabul are being rapidly pushed forward.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 887, 11 September 1879, Page 2
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