Telegrams.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 288, 8 November 1878, Page 15

Telegrams.

♦ (reuter's special.) Calcutta. October 251h. Affairs on the frontier continue much the same. The concentration of the troops is proceeding in readiness for war. There is much sickness at Peshawur. A friendly feeling is generally manifested by the frontier tribes. It is stated that the Ameer's reply to the Sultan distinctly refuses to admit England's mission into Cabul or to have anything to do with the British Government. London, October 27th. Government debentures are heavy and depressed. Exchanges are favourable for the transmission of gold from continental markets. Wool is inactive, with dropping prices. The next sales are expected to show a decline. New Zealand wheat, 41s to 455. Constantinople, October 7th. An insurrectionary movement is on foot in Roumclia and Macedonia, with the object of obtaining a union with New Bulgaria. (SPECIAL TO THE MELBOURNE ARGUS.) London, October 24th. The Prince of Wales, in receiving a deputation at the Colonial Museum, said he was convinced that tho success of the institution was undoubted. He assured the deputation of his warm entrance in every proposal binding the colonies to the Empire. He announced the intention of Her Majesty to confer the Companionship of St. Michael and St. George on Messrs. Pelliter and Keeper (Canada), Casey Levy, Coombes, Boothby, and Hodgson. The Kussian Press advocate indirect aid to the Ameer of Aghanistan. London, October 2Gth. It is rumoured that Sir W. W. Cairns has been appointed Governor of New Zealand. The directors of the Glasgow Bank have made an immediate call of £000 per share. There has been a terrible gale at Philadelphia. Numerous edifices, twenty-five churches, and hundreds of dwellings were damaged. The shipping was much injured. A great number of people were killed and injured. [REUTEK'S SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.j London, October 30th. The relations between England and Eussia are disquieting, owing to the situation in Roumclia, and the tone of the Russian Press. An extraordinary Cabinet meeting has been held to-day. England protested against Russian delays in executing the Berlin treaty. _ The insurrection in Roumelia is spreading. The Porte has complained to the Powers of Russia's complicity. Count Schouvaloff immediately succeeds Prince Gortschakoff. Count Orloff comes to London, Grave anxiety is felt regarding the relations. Austria is massing 175,000 troops in the Tyrol. It is understood the Cabinet regards war with Russia as inevitable. Austria has promised active, and France moral, support. Germany^ remains neutral, on condition that France is quiescent. The Standard states that England requires from all parties concerned a strict and literal execution of the Berlin Treaty. November Ist. Gladstone, speaking at a public meeting on tho question of Afghan, and the Eastern policy of the Government, said the course adopted caused commercial stagnation ; and, taking higher ground, he considered it a violation of the constitution. London, October 30th. England has sent the Ameer of Afghanistan an ultimatum. The Daily News says the measures against the Ameer of Afghanistan have been postponed pending the dispatch of the ultimatum, in accordance with directions from Home. The ultimatum is offered to enable the Ameer to change the attitude he has taken up with respect to the occupation of the passes. The Russian staff have printed several thousand copies of the Ruf^n-Afghan Directory for use in the army. War material is being shipped to India. It is officially stated that the reply of the Ameer of Afghanistan indicates avowed hostility, and it has been decided this will be the Ameers's last chance. An Afreedee tribe have tendered their services to the British. There is no cause for anxiety. The Ameer's troops are at Aliinssede. The Northern Khelat tribes render great assistance in furnishing supplies to the Quetta column. November 2nd. _ The Russian Press has changed its tone, and deprecates directly aiding the Ameer of Afghanistan. It advises a benevolent neutrality. The monetary crisis is passed. The money market is now easier, and the discount rate is falling. The bank reserve is steadily rising. Consols have risen a quarter per cent. Australian securities arc slowly recovering. A new Egyptian loan of eight and a half millions is announced. Wheat is firmer. New Zealand wheat selling, ex store, per 4'JGlb., according to quality, 43s to 475. November Ith. There is no truth in the statement that England asked the Towers to insist on enforcing the Treaty of Berlin.