LONDON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3030, 12 March 1881, Page 3

LONDON.

March 10.

The barque Chaudiere, from Napier, which arrived off the the coast on Monday, came into collision yesterday with the Euphrates as she was coming up the channel. She Buffered considerable damage, and shortly afterwards went ashore on the Godwin sands. She has, however since been tugged off, and brought safely into dock. The Euphrates was but slightly injured. Several further arrests of suspected persons have been made in Ireland under the Coercion Act.

At the wool sale to-day 7000 bales were catalogued. There was a good demand.

In the House of Commons to-night a question was put to the Premier regarding the armistice which had been declared between the Boers and the British troops in the Transvaal. Mr Gladstone, in reply, said that, although it had only been agreed to suspend hostilities for one week, it had been understood between. Sir Evelyn Wood, and the Boer commander that a longer armistice could be proclaimed should the state of the negotiations for peace render such necessary.

Information has been received today from Ireland that an important seizure of military weapons, consisting of one hundred pikes, bas been made by the police at Eanturk, 3 in the County of Cork.

Mr Parnell has issued a manifesto in which he exorts the Irish voters in England to resist the legislative measures of the Liberals to the utmost, and to oppose the return of further members of the party to Parliament.