CABLE MESSAGES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 362, 9 January 1880, Page 2

CABLE MESSAGES.

LATEST EUROPEAN

(Reuters Telegrams.) f [Special to the Mail.] London, Jan. 7. News has been received that an insurrection has broken out in Bolivia. The President has been overthrown and has fled. The insurrection is attributed to the ill success of Bolivia in the war with Chili. Capetown, Jan. 6. The Secretary of the People's Committee in the Transvaal, recently arrested for. treason, has been committed for trial and liberated on bail. (from the lyttelton times.) London, Jan. 6. In consequence of the evictiou of a tenant serious riots occurred to-day at Conuemara, in Ireland. The police fired upon and bayoneted the rioters, who were ultimately dispersed. None were killed, but several were wounded. Berlin, Jan. 5. The North German Gazette publishes an article to-day, in which it is stated that Germany warmly supported Sir Henry Layard, the British Ambassador at Constantinople, during his recent rupture with the Porte, and that the affair is likely to bring about a closer understanding between England and. .-v Germany. St. Petersburg, Jan 6. The Empress has suffered a relapse, and is again in a critical state of health. -Bombay, Jan. 6. Despatches from General Roberts dated Cabul, Jan. 4, announce that all is quiet within the city. An amnesty has been granted to all except the leaders of the rebellion. General Gough's force has occupied the Bala Hiwar. [Argus' Special.] London, Jan. 6. It i? reported that Mr Parnell's speeches in America are extremely moderate Several collisions lately taken place between the po : ! ,c and the people, owing to evictions. A procession at Conuemara, numbering <LOO, assailed 60 constables with stones. The latter fired' amongst the (irowd and charged with bayonets, wounding several severely. Several arrestt>have been made. Government have cause for grave anxiety in consequence of the flight of Abderrahman from Tashkend to Balkh, with the connivance of the Russians, who supplied him with money. This is regarded as the beginning of an unofficial war, altering the aspect of the Afghan question. The Khan of Merv has sent an Embassy to : Calcutta for mediation or assistance. [Age Special.] London, Jan. 6. The Daily News Central Association's correspondent has been ordered to leave in consequence of his criticisms upon General Sir Garnet Wolseley, and he is on the point of leaving Natal.