LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2348, 12 October 1881, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By TBLBaBAPH.] [Per s.s. City of New York, at Auckland.] LONDON, October 5. A serious railway collision has occurred between two trains on the railway line near Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Porty persons were more or less seriously injured. Agrarian outrages are again becoming numerous in Ireland. A farmer near Bathbone has been murdered because ho persisted in paying his rent to his landlord at Kanturk, in County Cork. A laborer for supplying a farmer who had been Boycotted has himself been Boycotted, and a murderous attack was made on tho farmer, who was mortally wounded. Several prisoners apprehended under tha Irish Coercion Act and incarcerated in Bridewell at Athlone, have been released. Since thfir freedom they have received an ovation at the bands of the friends and members of the Land League, 1 October 4. Intelligence has been received from Tunis to tho. affect that the Arab insurgents have

come into collision with the army of the Bey, and that a battle was fought. After severe fighting the insurgents defeated the Tunisian troops, and routed them with considerable loss. The insurgents followed up their victory by wrecking the railway line and ravaging the surrounding districts by slaughter and fire. It is reported that in one conflagration twelve persons were burned alive, and that amongst the victims of tbe insurgents’ revenge are several British subjects. The newest and largest of the Peninsula and Oriental Company’s mail boats, the Borne, will leave Gravesend on October the 4th, upon her first voyage for Australia. fine picks up the outward mails, which leave London on October 21st, at Galle. Amongst the passengers already booked for New Zealand by the Borne, are — Meiers J. T, Wright and J. Davidson, for Dunedin ; find Messrs A. G. Horton, B. Tonks, and Miss Newby, for Auckland.