LONDON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3174, 31 August 1881, Page 3

LONDON.

August 29. The homeward Australian and New Zealand mails via Suez and Brindisi, which left Melbourne on Jaly 20, were delivered here to-day. At tbe wool sale to-day 11,500 bales were catalogued. The tone of the sale was firm. For combing there is more demand at a slight improvement. August 30.

A banquet was given last night to Mr Dillon, M.P., who waa recently released " from Kilmainham gaol, by a number of bis friends and sympathisers. Several Home Rule members were preeent. Mr Dillon, in the course of his speech in reply to the toast of his health, alluded to the Irish Land Act, which he characterised as worthless. He further announced his intention of resigning his .eat for Tipperary, and retiring into private life. An inquiry which has been held into the cause of the disaster to H.M.S. Doterel in the Straits of Magellan in May last has resulted in the finding that the explosion was due to the absence of ventilation in the magazine. The English cricketers embark at Liverpool on the 17th September for America, en route for New Zealand and Australia. Telegrams are to hand announcing that a mo9t severe cyclone has been experienced on the South Atlantic coast of South America. It extended over a confer -iderable area, and was felt at several seaports and inland towns. The destruction to life and property is reported to have been very great.