LATEST CABLE NEWS.
[from our own oorrbspondent.]
XJAI.OS7TTA.— •»- September 18. One of the nine men of. the escort, who escaped tlie massacre at C'abul, says the attack on the Residency was not premeditated. Communication is interrupted bebetween the Kyber Pass and Cabul. The frontier tribes are causing difficulties, while the transport service delays advance through the Kyber Pass. The British expeditionary force in Afghanistan consists of two columns of 12,000 each. PARIS. September 23. Lord Salisbury and M. Waddington hive come to an un.lerstan.ding as to the future action of France and Great Britain with respect to Egypt and Greece. LONDON. September 23. News from the Oape states tnat Sir Garnet Wolseley has an lounced that the Zulu chiefs have signed conditions of peace. At the wool sales to-day, 9,800 bales were cat logued. There was a firm and active demand.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 905, 26 September 1879, Page 2
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