LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 974, 17 December 1880, Page 3

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGNi (From Exchanges.) London, December "th. A serious riot took place at Brookborough, C mnty Armagh, Ireland, owing to a lan I nieening held thwebein g prohibited by the authorities. The Riot Act was read. Large In lies of police and dragoons were calle I out, when the rioters were dispersed.. New York, December 7i hj. A proj >ct is on fo >t for the c instruction of a cable to lie lai 1 from San Francisco to Australia, via the Sandwich IsIAU Is. A gram, in Austria, has again been visited with!a severe shock of earthquake, which has caused farther damage to the town. London, December 9th, Nows has been receive I of another serious murderous outrage in Ireland. A bailiff, while executing a decree for the eviction of a te i.a it from a farm at Cookstown, in the C muty Tyrone, wn set on by the tenant an I a number of his syrup ithisers, an,l was mmdered by them before he could e-cape. December 10th. The Irish Lingua has now institute 1 courts for the settlement of disputes between the landlords an I the tenants on the land question. A terrible c dlierv .explosion occurred to day at Prygraig. (.sic) which has rasultel in the death of over ninety miners who were in the pita at the time of th; explosion. The total quantity of wheat afl iat lor the Unite I Kmglo.n is 2.M'O,dJ I quarters. At the w i d sates in v b ring hold ther ; is very fair com ictition for inferior to common qualities. Cross-breda were Id to 2 I lower than last sales. Athens, December 11th. The Greek Government have voted a new loan for war purposes. Gonstanitnoplr. December lOdi. The Porte has address? ! a ciren'ar note to the Great Powers calling on them to restrain Ur.ec: from pr iceling with the increase of her armaments, .and to adt her if she will accept tbs compromise pr ip«s ;d in October last—namely, that the territory to the ’south of Janina and Larissa sh mild be ce led, but not these towns themselves The Porte adds that if' 1 recce replies in the negative a rupture must ensue. London. December 13th. At a Cabinet Council held to day by Ministers, Mr Forster, Chief Secretary for Ir-bin 1, hiving in-iit 1 1 uon a looting coercive meant res in Ircdan I turn ilia’e'.y, a meeting of Parham ml is quite omible.