LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 983, 18 February 1881, Page 3

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

BRITISH ANU FOREIGN. (From Exchanges.) London, February 7th. Michael Davitt will beoxempt from hard labor during the remainder of his sen tenco. A disastrous fire has broken out in a colliery at Tunstall, .Staffordshire. Twenty Colliers are entombed, and but little hope of rescuing them is entertained. Mr T. W. Walsh, a Land Leaguer, and one of the traversers in tho (event p oserntionat Dublin, has started for Aus tralia.

- February Oth. In tho House of Commons last ni.lit the Irish Cneieinn Rill was read a second time, the result of tho division showing a majority of 300 for tho Government.

Intelligence has been received from Panama that the first hatch of engineers lias anived, and preliminary operations in connection wi hj the construction of the Isthmus canal have been Commenced.

February 10th. The race which takes place on Monday next Ip-tween Han'on an I haycock is generally regarded as a certainty for Hanlon. The betting is now 3 to 1 nn Han lon. February 11th. Tho total quantity of wheat afloat tor the United Kingdom is 2,231),000qra.

The marriage of the Baroness Enrdett Uoutts with Mr Ashmead Bartlett took place to-day. The police have received information which leads to the belief that a Fenian plot is on foot to blow Up Windsor Castle. Thu return of Her Majesty to Windsor is consequently delayed.

February 14th. A meeting took place in Hyde Park to-day in opposition to nteasun s proposed by Go. vernment for the set lenient of the .-potation in Irelan I. A eondderahle number of people were pre-etu. .Several violent speeches were made, and copi. s of the Irish Coercion Bill were burned on the platform.

The Ladi'-s’t cache, Which has recently been forme I in Dublin, has for its object the furtherance of the agitation for a settlement of the question of ownership of land in Ireland.

Constantinople, February 13th. News to baud Horn the Island of Crete reports that the inhabitants are at present much disturbed over,the possibility of the island heins ceded to Gr-edein partial settlement of the Turco-Greek difficulty. London, February I4‘h. In accordance with the announcement mal.- recently, two regiments of cavalry and 1000 infantry have been ordered to Natal. February 14th. Mr Parnell has been absent from the House of Commons for a wee.k. and it is believed that lie is visiting Paris. The Ladies’ Learne in Ireland is daily extendin'.' its operations and increasing the agitation in regard to the land question. February 15th. Telegrams are to hand containing a rumour that. 500 Irish Americans ha'-e left the States for the Transvaal Co j dn the service against (?) the B ,ers. New York, February loth. The weather doling the lust few days has been very rove e throughout the States The gr eiter pirt of the City of Washington is inundated, and much loss of property is being caused. Very heavy snowstorms have been experienced in the West, and the rniroads in many places are blocked, and traffic, is completely auspe idel. London, February 14th. The House '■{ Commons has decided if Committee that, the Irish Coercion Bill shall be retrnsneetiveiu its operation, and shaP give the Viceroy of Ireland power to make arena's for off,me,.3 cumhdtte 1 prior to Ist October last year.