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LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Thuegraph.l rPor e.s. Eotorua, at the Bluff.] LONDON, May 30. There is some division of opinion in the Cabinet as to the measures adopted for the purpose of reitoring-joxder in Ireland. The Chief Seoretary has urged upon the Government the impossibility of repressing the outrages now of daily occurrence so long as the agitation raised by the Land League is allowed to continue unoheoked and the passions of the people are inflamed by the violent speeches delivered. He strongly recommends that all public meetings in connection with the Land League be prohibited for a period of six months. This proposal is supported by several members of the Cabinet, but is opposed by others as too great an interference with public liberty. Agrarian outrages continue in Ireland. A farmer has been murdered at Galway for refusing to comply with the dictates of the League. He was shot by an assassin, who has not yet been apprehended.

May 31. The Austrian Government have intimated their acceptance of the commercial treaty with Germany, adopting a proposal to bind the duties fixed by the respective tariffs on certain good* for a longer number of years. Sir George Strahan, Governor of Tasmania, will leave England in September for the purpose of assuming office. It is stated that the vacant Garter will be conferred upon Earl Kimberley. Secretary of State for the Colonies.

It has been decided by the promoters of the wool exhibition to be held at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, to establish an auotion in connection therewith, in order that the actual selling price of the exhibits can be ascertained.

The enormous stream of emigration to the United States from European countries is attracting universal attention. During the month of May the number of immigrants who landed at New York was 77,000. Another eruption of Vesuvius has taken place. Streams of lava poured down the side of the mountain causing considerable damage. Serious eviotion riots have occurred at Olonmel, Tipperary. The peasantry assembled 5 n large numbers and resisted the police and the military. The latter were at length ordered to fire, and thirty people were wounded. Owing to the reported renewal of the slave trade at Soukar, strong representations on the subject have been made to the Khedive, who has replied that he will endeavour zealously to suppress slavery within his dominions. A hitch has occurred in the formation of the team of professional cricketers who are to visit Australia during the coming season. The Nottingham contingent are dissatisfied with the financial arrangements, and threaten to withdraw altogether. Intelligence received from Cuba Bhows that the sugar crop of the island this year will be largely deficient. In consequence of the continuance of disturbances in Ireland, the Government has issued orders that the furloughs of officers of the British army stationed there are to be cancelled. Prince Bismarok is again suffering from illness, and his condition causes considerable anxiety to his friends. The Austrian district of Tyrol is in a very disturbed state. Numerous cases of arson have occurred, which are believed to have been caused by Socialist agitators, a number of whom have been arrested. A party of Greek brigands have saoked the village of Brezopolje, in the distriot of

Sulonica. Troops were despatched against them and a skirmish took place, resulting in considerable loss of life. The construction of the Panama Canal is being prooeeded with as rapidly as possible, and Baron de Lesseps ezpeots that it will be completed and open for traffic in about four years' time. Mr Mcllraith having arranged that Messrs Fielding and Robinson, in conjunction with Colonel Soratobley, shall explore the TransContinental Bailway route from Soma to the Gulf of Carpentaria, Messrs Fielding and Bobinson have left England to join Colonel Scratchley ia Melbourne, for the purposo of setting out on the expedition.

fPor s.s. Arawata, at Russell.] LONDON, June 8. Alarming discoveries continue to be made of Nihilistic plots to murder the Bussian sovereign, and considerable anxiety exists for the safety of the Czir, in consequence of numerous preparations being made to ensure his destruction. One of the latest discoveries made by the police is the existence of a dynamite mine underneath the railway station at Q-athschina, about 100 miles from St. Petersburgh. A battery was connected by wire with the telegraph office, and this led to the suspicion that the telegraph clerks were implicated in the plot. All the clerks have therefore been arrested. The police- also discovered a dynamite infernal maohine beneath the Czar in church. June 8.

The Eight Hon. Sir W. Melbourne Jameß Kent, one of the Lord Chief Justices of Appeal in the Supreme Court judicature is dead. He was 75 years of age. England and Bussia have agreed not to interfere in the event of war breaking out in Afghanistan between the Ameer and Ayoub Khan.

The Frenoh Oovernment has appointed M. Joulin de Court to the position of Frenoh Consul at Sydney in place of M. Ralliere, who is about to be transferred to Mauritius.

The money market in America is tightening. The London stock markets are declining, but trade returns are very little changed. The most serious riots that have yet been reported from Ireland occurred yesterday in province Munster. There were disturbances in various parts of the oountry, but the most alarming took place at Ballydehob and Skibbereen, county Cork. The bank was wreoked, and the telegraph lines and bridges destroyed in ope place. The mob holds complete possession of the town. The holding of meetings has been prohibited in some parts of the oountry, and little short of anarchy prevails.

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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2247, 15 June 1881, Page 3

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LATE CABLE NEWS. Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2247, 15 June 1881, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS. Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2247, 15 June 1881, Page 3

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