LATE CABLE HEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2057, 27 September 1880, Page 2

LATE CABLE HEWS.

[Br Telegraph.]

[Par s.s. Tararna at the Bluff.]

LONDON, September 15. It is reported in Yienna that England intends to abandon Cyprus.

A collision has occurred between the Turkish troops and Greek insurgents. The latter retired after severe fighting.

September 16. There is an impression that the forthcoming Victorian loan of £2,000,000 will be a great success, even if the minimum is much higher than was previously fixed. The inquiry into the alleged complicity between the markers and competitors at Wimbledon has resulted in Sergeant Marshman, one of tho markers for the Olympic prize, being acquitted. Ayoub Khan has crossed the Halmund, on his road to Herat, It is believed that the Heratees will refuse him admission to the city, which will force him to take refuge in Persia. Hanlon, the Canadian champion, is at Newcastle recruiting his health. He suffered greatly from sea-sickness on the voyage across the Atlantic. There are persistent rumours that the Emperor of Russia is ill, and that ha intends to abdicate. Tho report of an outbreak at Herat, in which the governor of that place was said to have been murdered, is not confirmed. Mr Childers, Secretary for War, has been making an official tour in the North of Ireland, jyphere he has been well received. He expressed the hope that her Majesty would shortly visit Ireland. The combined fleets have assembled at Ragusa, They number twenty vessels, with 7300 men. The change or Ministry in Turkey at the present time is regarded as inimical to the fulfilment of the demands of the Powers. Tho Government of the Dominion of Canada has entered into a contract with European and American capitalists to construct the Pacific railway. September 17. Hostilities have commenced in Basutoland. A large body of natives, under tho leadership of a chief named Masupha, attacked a company of Cape Bides stationed at Mafeting township within the territory. Karl Yon Hoffman has retired from the position of Minister of Commerce and Industry to the German Government, which he had held for the last fourteen months, and Prince Bismarck has assumed the office himself in order that he may devote his personal attention to carrying out tho policy of protection which he has recently inaugurated.

Owing to the enforcement of the laws for the expulsion of the Jesuits, large numbers of the members of this body took refuge in Alsace for the purpose of settling there, but the German Government, disapproving their presence, has given instructions for the expulsion of French Jesuits from the province. September 18. The Albanians refusing to consent to the cession of Dulcigno to Montenegro, in accordance with the promise given by Turkey, the peaceably inhabitants of the town have been warned to retire without delay, and remove their property. A Montenegrin force is advancing upon Dulcigno, and it is probable that the united naval squadron will combine operations against the Porte if resistance is continued. Instructions have been given by the Indian Government for holding an inquiry into the circumstances attending the disaster which befol the brigade under command of General Burrows. The Indian press considers that General Primrose, who commanded at Oandahar, was chiefly responsible for despatching too weak a force to check Ayoub's advance, but it is stated that the movement was made in accordance with express instructions from the Commander-in-Chief at Simla. The financial condition of Hew Zealand has excited grave alarm among the bond-holders, and frequent attention has been called in the press to the excessive borrowing of the colony in comparison with its population. There have been persistent sales of New Zealand bonds, which have fallen heavily.