LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 987, 18 March 1881, Page 2

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. (From Exchange*. V London, March Silt

A very severe hurricane, accompanied by heavy fal sof snow, has been experienced over the greater part of Scotland during the past twenty-four hours. Great damage has been done to property. Terrific galea have also raged on the coast, and numerous shipwrecks, resulting in great loss of life, have been caused. So far as can be at present ascertained, fully one hundred persons have been drowned in vessels which havo foundered in the ports and off coast. The Irish Judges of Assize,- in their charges to the grand jqriss at the Courts, which wore opened yesterday in the Irish provinces, again took occasion to refer to tbs alarming state of thecountry, and deplored in forcible terms the continued occurrence of an enormous amount oi undetected crime.

In the House of Commons to day a disorderly scene again occurred.' Mr O,Donnell, the member for Dupgacypu,- was most dtnrnfy, and defied the Chair ( jn. violent language. He was than, by the Speader’s orders, suspended far thu remainder of tif sitting.

Twenty persons ha vs been arrested" in' Ireland on warrants issuelhy thi V un-ly under the Coercion Act. March 9 th. Michael Boyton, the chief paid org inner of ihe branches of the Laud League, an I who w is one of the traversers in the recent SUt j prosecutions, has bean arrests I in Leland under the Viceroy’s wirraut II: c intends that as he is an Vtairiciu subject bis arrest is illegal, and bo claims the ore tectinn of the United States Government. It is genera ly expected that importin' changes will shortly talce place in the Cab inet, Th- authorities in Irelanl are vigorously employing the powerss granted by the do eroion Act for the apprehension of persons guilty or suspected of of treasonable conduct. In addition to the arrests already reported to b >ve been ra ide, warrants have been issued and are being daily execute i against many other suspected person:. March 10th. , The barque Chandiere, from Napier, arrived off the coast on Monday, came into collision yesterday with the Buphratt a os she was coming up the Channel. She suffered considerable damage, and shortly afterwards went ashore on the Goodwin '-’ands. She has, however, since been towed off, and brought safely into dock. The Euphrates was but slightly in* jured. Several further arres's of suspected persons have been made in Ireland under the i k Coercion Act. Information has been received to-day* from Ireland that an important seixure of military weapons, consisting of I Of) pikes, had been made by the police at Kautnrk, in County Cork. Mr Parnell has issu'd a manifesto, in which he exhorts the Irish voters in Eng land to resist the legislative measures of the Liberals to tne utmost, and to o jpose the return of further members of the party to Parliament. March 11th. The House of Lords ha# dismissed the appeal made on behalf of the convict Th' Was Castro, alias Arthui Orton, against the judgment of the Court of Appeal in June last, in discharging the writ of error which it was thought to prove against the decision of the Court of Queen’s B nch in 1874, in aWanlin : two successive sentences of pena servitude on the two counts of tbs indictment. T. March 14th. Large meetings under the auspices of the Land Leacuewere held yesterday at twenty different p'aci-s in Ireland. All passed off without disturbance. The proposal <-f ihe Government to demand “ urgency ” to the considerati -n of supply in committee of ways and means, was negatived by a considerable m ij irity. THE WAR AT THE CAPE. Capstown, March Bth. Intelligence hag been received from Natal that, taking advantage of the provisions of the armistice with the Boers, Sir Evelyn Wood has alrea iy despatched convoys of goods to “'he British garrisons at Pretoria, Wakkerstroora, Poichefstroom. and other places in the Transvaal, March 10 th. News is to hand to-day from Basutoland that the nag'tiatio-i* for p. ace which j were proceeding between the Colonial commander ami the Basutos have failed, the armistice has now entirely ceased, and hos-ti-i ies between the two forces have bean resumed. March 12th News to hand from the Orange Free State ann unces rha'. the population of the State is at ■he present time much excited over the State .iff drs in the Transvaal. London, Mareh 12th. In the House of ( 'o-rnnons to-day, the Right Hun. W. E Gladstone male as r ate. nient legarding the p sition of affairs in theTransvaal He announced that, with a view to bringing about a complete ceasaiion of hostilities and a permanent se'tleinent of the difficulty. Peice Coin -lissione » would he appointed.