LATER CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2088, 2 November 1880, Page 2

LATER CABLE NEWS.

[Br Tjubgeaph."! [.Via Ku sell.] LONDON, October 26. In consequenoe of Trickott ar.d Blackman failing to agree upon important details, the on itoh between them for £SOO aside has fallen .hrougb. The principal obstacle in the way wag the date upoa whioh the mafo'i should be rowsd. Immediately it became known that the match between Trickett and Blackmail had fallen through, a challenge was issued on behalf of Lajooek to row Btaekman again on the Thames. Blaokman's friends, however, *re desirous that he should oompete for the championship, and require time to consider whether he should accept Lay cook'* challenge. Several influential colonists in London, and others interested in the progress of the colonies, and the question of fnod supply, have t taken active steps to have the capabilities of the Australian colonies f-jr a ipplying fresh meat and other food, brought prominently before the people of Euglai;d. With thi» object it woontemplated to hold an exhibition of Au»traliin fresh focd in London next year. The promoters of the movement are sanguine of tne success of the project, which it it thought will be found to expedite the growth of the business of food supplies from Australia to England. The latest news from South Africa is of an alarming character. Reports have been received of massacres of white people by the natives of Natal, and the position of the celonis's atd troops is daily bed ming mora critical. Assistance from England is urgently required. The Kburds, whose predatory deeds lately have laid waste a great deal of property in Persia and Armenia, have besieged the Persian town of Uramea in great force. They have also proclaimed their independence of Turkey. Mr Heily, who accompanied Mr Psrnell on his American tour, has been arrested at Oork for using seditious language and exciting the popul«re to revolt.