NEWS BY THE CABLE
[Reuter's Telegrams.]
LONDON, Feb. 4
A Times telegram states that civil war has broken out at Cabul. Yakoob Khan is bombarding the city.
Wheat afloat for England totals 1,421,000 quarters ; tallow in London, 16,625 casks.
Consols 96f
The new Ministry is as follows :— M. Le Pere, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce • M. Leon Say, Minister of Finance : M. Waddington, Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of the Council; M. Marccr, Minister of the Interior and Public Worship • Admiral Jourquibcry, Minister of Marine and Colonies ; M. Freycinet, Minister of Public Works; M. Greechy (interim), Minister of War ; M. Fery ; Minister of Education.
Feb. 5. The Sivdahs are leaving Oabul, and fighting for the succession.
Turkey has ceded Khotona to Persia,
Astrakhan, where the plague is raging, is completely isolated, and surrounded by a military cordon.
The head-quarters of the Union Bauk of Cornwall are at Holston aud Falmouth.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 3380, 7 February 1879, Page 2
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