CABLEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 28 January 1880, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

BEUTERS' CABLEGRAMS. M [pee pbess agency.] Mklbouene, January 27*^1 The date on which the adjou^H ment and dissolution of the Assembly will take place, is still uncertain owing to the slow progress which is being made with the consideration of the Estimates. St. Petersburg. There ia a serious deficiency in the Kussian wheat crop, and the export of corn has largely decreased, and the expediency of the importation of American grain is being discussed. London. "With reference to the speech of the first Lord of Admiralty at Sutton last week, it now transpires that it is proposed that the British troops in Afghanistan shall retire from Cabul to Jellallabad, and the appointmeut of British Envoy at Cabul will probably be waived. Public belief in the ru»nor recently circulated that a frontier Province , would be formed between Khyber and I the Kurrumis is strengthened now 1 that the above facts have transpired. ' Sydney. i A man named Coultbard, aged 23, ! has surrendered himself to the police ! at Yass, stating that in January; 1878, • while he was a chemist at Nelson, J England, he poisoned his wife with ( prussic acH, and weighted the body

and threw it into tnl^^^^^^^^H after he emigrated tP|^^^^^^^| now asserts he is wretchea^^^^^| visions of his wife nightly. . Arrived — Arrawata, form land. , New Yob4[H Parnell, tfee Irish agitator, tnacfl , a violent speech to»day, in which hi denounced the formation of an Irisy , Relief Fund, because they would nj^fl afford aid to rent defaulters. > j^| latter he said claimed sepa^H nationality, and the landlords mo^| ' therefore give way,