HOME AND FOREIGN.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1062, 1 September 1882, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN.

Ten men have been ful ! y indentified as the perpelratore of the recent murderous outrage in Connemara. Mr Guilford Onslow, ex-M.P., and the Claimant’s admirer, is dead. The anti-Christian agitation among the Mahomedan population in Syria is spreading rapidly. No serious outbreak of fanaticism has, however, occurred. The Agents-general for the Colonies having disagreed, Earl Kimberley has appointed a n Australian juror for the Bordeaux Wine Exhibition. An alarming outbreak of smallpox is reported to have occurred at Capetown. The annual overflow of the River Nile has commenced. Several companies are being formed in London with a view to the further development of the importation of New Zealand meat to England. A conference of Chinese merchants in London have urged the promotion of emigration to Cyprus, 1 Ootewayo embarks on the Ist September

on his return to the Capo. Ten thousand halos wore offered at tho London wool sale, and there was a 11 rm and active demand. Intelligence is to hand from the Thillipino Islands that'a terrible outbreak of [cholera is raging there. Four thousand deaths from the epidemic are already reported. The agitation among tho Irish Constabuincreasing- Great discontent exists among them in the Limerick and Dublin districts. Large numbers of tho Limerick police force threaten to resign if those who took a prominent part in the recent strike, are removed.