LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 957, 20 August 1880, Page 3

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. (From Exchanges.) • London, August 10th. Intelligence has been received that two members— Carter and Cadenhead—of the Belgian Expedition, now exploring in Afina have been murdered by the natives, A angements have been made for a ecu’ling in itch on the Thames between Mr E. > aye..oh, of Sydney, and Mr Blackman, for I.lhJ aside. Calcutta, August 10th. Intelligence has been received from Candalrar to the. 6th instant. General Primrose reports that the citadel is in a complete state of defence and that he is provisioned for twenty-five days. Ayoub Khan, with the bulk of his army, is encamped at Kokoran, near Candahar. London, August 11th. Trickett has returned from Scotland, and is now at Putney. He is practising m a boat which he brought from Australia.

News has been received that the steamer Jeddah, bound to Singapore with 1000 pilgrims from Jeddah, foundered during a heavy gale off Cape Guardalin. All on board perished, except 21. The price of wheat is declining. Harvest operations are progressing rapidly. It is expected that the English crop will be below the average. Heavy shipments continue to arrive from America.

Mr Goschen, the British Ambassador at Constantinople, has declared to the Minister, of Foreign Affairs, that the Great Powers will not consent to any change of the Taroo-Greck frontier.

August 12 hj

Serious railway accidents occurred this day on the Northern-and Midland lines In both cases the trains left the rai Is and ran down embankments Several passengers were killed, and many wounded. An uneasy feeling exists in Ireland owing to six boats containing Fenians having hoarded a vessel at Cork. They overcame the contain and crew, and stole three cases of rifles which hj ive not yet been recovered, and the'cnlprits still remain at large. The total reserve in the Bank of England is LlG,2d ),000. August 13th. The sculling match between Lay cork and Blackman will be rowed on the Thames on October sth. The total quantity of wheat afloat for Oreatßritaiu is 1,SO),000 quarters, Washington, August 14th. A railway collision has occurred at New Jersey, when two excursion trains collided, London, August L'itb. The proposal which has been made to the various Powers that the Sultan of Turkey should he guaranteed the remainder of his territory, provided he consents (o the conditions of the Berlin Conference, as it is now announced, emanated from Germany and Austria, and is believed to be the outcome of the ‘recent interview between fire two Einpcrn-s. Pa ms, August 15th. M. C.atnbe' ta is making a general levy on democracy f .r tile purpose of strengthening France, and to enable her to recover the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, which they lost during the last war with the Germans. August 10 b. It now transpires that Oambotta’s letter is of .old date; and has not been recently written, as was at lirat mippr.stA. Lono in, August 14th. A large number of supposed Fenian emissaries have arrived in Ireland. Four hundred rifles have been purchased at Dublin and taken to Cork. It is suspected that a complete Fenian organisation now exists in Ireland.

A large meeting of Home Eulers has been hold at Glasgow. Thirty thousand Irishmen attended the meeting.

Confirmatory information has been received from Candahar which states that Ayonh Khan has commenced military operations against that place, which is now in a state of siege.

Mr O’Donnell, member for Dungarvan (one of the most extreme Irish representatives), has had a violent quarrel with Mr Parnell, and has seceded from his follmving. The ill-feeling arose in consequence of the support given by Mr Parnell |to Mr Bradlaugh in the debates which arose over the right of the latter to take his seat in Parliament. August 16th. Numerous land meetings have been held throughout Ireland. At a recent meeting at Kildare, Mr Dillon (Home Rule member for Tipperary) made several seditious speeches.

No arrangement has yet been come to for a match between the Australian cricketers and an Ail England Eleven. Constantinople, August 17th,

Owing to the Great Powers not consenting to any change in the Turko-Greek frontier, as fixed by the Berlin Conference, Turkey has asked for 24 days’ extension of time to further consider the question as regards the settlement of rectification of frontier.