SPECIAL CABLE NEWS TO THE "HERALD."

Wanganui Herald, Volume XII, Issue 9315, 7 January 1879, Page 2

SPECIAL CABLE NEWS TO THE "HERALD."

(FROM OUR SPECIAL LONDON CORRESPONDENT. )

THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN.

GREAT DISASTER TO BRITISH

FORCES.

THREE-FOURTHS OF A DIVISION

DESTROYED.

XYBER PASS TRAFFIC STOPPED.

TEftRIBLE ACCIDENT ON BOARD

AN IRONCLAD.

THE CITY OF GLASGOW LIQUI-

DATION.

London, December 3 1st. "

The Pope appeals to the German Bishops to inculcate obedience to the laws and to pray for the tenancy of secular powers. A plot to till the Prince of Servia has been discovered .

The statement of tbe liquidators of the City of Glasgow Bank ia very bad. Janunry 1. The hill tribes have stopped the traffic in the Kyber Pass.

The British fleet has returned to Ismet.

Four of theAmeer'sregimentsdestroyed three-fourths of General Biddulph's division ou Caodahar Plain. A general advauce is ordered.

January 3.

A gun exploded on board the ironclad Thunderer. It destroyed the turret, killed seven, and wounded forty.

(Pjsb, Peess Association.) Bombay, January lst/ The fleet returns to Ismet. Provisions are unobtainable at Artaki. The Governor of Oandahar is preparing vigorous defences.

London, January Ist.

The City of Glasgow Bank call realised £800,000. The secretary has been released, 1 and becomes a Crown witness.

The Turkish commissioners agree to sur icnder Podgoritza and Montenegro.

The Glasgow Bank pays 5s in tho pound on tho 3rd February.

Khan BLhelat is desirous of cooperating with the British iv the advance on Oandahar.

Lord Salisbury, in a despatch, applauds and accepts the concessions of the Porte as adequate,

, The American Secretary to the Treasury holds forty million dollars of gold. There'will be a resumption of specie payments.