CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 3608, 3 November 1879, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Reutee's Teleobams.] LONDON, Oct. 30. A Long Voyage. Arrived — The Alastor, from Auckland, She Bailed on July 4. Consols, Notes, and Bullion. Three per cent consols are 97|-. The total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England is £17,750,000. Wool Market. The wool market is active. Sales were opened to-day at Id to l^d advance on previous rates. The arrivals amount to 710,000 bales. LONDON, Oct. 31. Best Australian mutton tallow, 41s 6d per cwt. Obituary — John Baldwin Buckstone. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 31. Russian Cruisers. Two Russian cruisers have sailed for the Pacific. NAPLES, Oct. 31. Volcanic. Mount Vesuvius is agitated. The eruption is increasing. QUEBEC, Oct. 30. Resignation of the Canadian Ministry. The Ministry have resigned in consequence of the Governor refusing a dissolution. ■■ „-._.., .-._.. -. ->■ MADRID, Oct. 30. Flooded Mines. The iron and. silver mine,s in Almeria are flooded, and a great quantity of ore has been lost; : ; ; ; A Great Burst. An extraordinary waterspout burst over Malaga, damaging several towns. [Age Special.] -<■ . • .LONDON, -Oct: 30. /Annexation of Afghanistan. News from Afghanistan states that General Roberts, instructed by the Viceroy of India, has issued a "proclamation announcing that Afghanistan has been permanently placed under the administration of -the British, who will occupy the principal cities and strongholds. Roberts will" act temporarily, as Military and Civil Commissioner o| Afghanistan, ; supported at Cabul by -a 'large body of, troops, Several Indian r regiments will reinforce the troops at Cabul, Candahar, and Jellalabad.V The •'• announcement has created a profonnd impression on the Continent of Europe. India generally approves. . ..V „. : : ~ .;' ],\ r Retribution. General Roberts has discovered that the massacre of the Embassy was inspired, by powerful advisers of the Ameer, but that Yakoob was not implicated. He will arraign the Ameer's Ministers before a Military Court for complicity in the massacre, : '\> • •