Telegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 509, 31 May 1881, Page 3

Telegraphic News.

LATEST JUROPEAN.

(Special to The Mail.) (Reuters Telegrams.) London, May 28. At the wool sales to-day 8900 bales were offered. Bhe tone of the auction was firm. Thickett and Kelly, his trainer, have - started for New York. News is to band from Ireland that " seriuus riots have occurred in county £ Cork ; 12,000 (sic.) peasants assembled there to oppose the service of writs for the ejectment of some tenants. Upon j. tlm police arriving on the scene, fighting j of a very severe character took place. fl After much bloodshed on both sides, the ' y rioters were dispersed, and the evictions j of tenants were finally completed. The g Irish Land League is daily increasing J its agitation, throughout tho country, and is showing signs that it will oppjse auy attempt to prohibit its meetings. Paris, May 28. • M. Gambetta made a speech to-day, : in the course of which he counselled a , pacific policy, and said that order and , peace were a necessity for the well-being of France, and should be rigidly maintained. Calcutta, May 28. Telegrams are to hand from Candahar ating that fighting has taken place at Girisk between bodies of the followers of the Ameer Abdul Rahaman and Acoub • Khan. The laster is reported to be still at Herat. '

From the Lyttelton Times.

London, May 2G. Later intelligence has been received from Canada concerning the steamboat accident which occurred near London in the Province Ontaria, to the effect that two hundred corpses have already been recovered. Negotiations have commenced between tho English and French Governments for a renewal of the treaties of 1860 and 1873 for regulating the international commerce of the two countries, The treaties will, under existing engagements, terminate in October next, unless their extension or renewal be agreed upon.