LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2481, 20 March 1882, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[Per s.s. Wakatipu, at Wellington.!

["Hbbaijj" Specials.] LONDON, Maroh 7.

The Select Committee of the Lords to inquire into the working of the Irish Land Act have oommenced to take evidence, and have examined the Seoretary of the Land Commission. Obituary—Earl Wilton, aged 83. One of the Eton College boys who pu»meliea the would-be assassin McLean, for which ne received the speoial thanks of her Majesty, was a son of Sir Samuel Wilson, of Vic toria. , _ March 8. The Indian Budget proposes to abolish the import duties on cotton, and to reduce the tax on £ealt, with proposals also for the • xt f ,n : sion of the system of free trade. T. e defioit this year reaches £4.000,000. but the revenue next year is estimated to yield £66 500.0 W, leaving a small surplus. The outlay connected with the late Afghan war amounted to nearly £20,000.000. _,. Disastrous floods in the valley of the Mississippi, with an increasing destruction or property, have taken place. Many of the people are starving. Several hats have been found in St. Petersburg filled with explosives. The Sultan has ordered Admiral Hobsrt Pasha to place the Turkish fieet in a thorough state of efficiency, so as to be ready for any emergency in the present state of European complications. , The thief who stole Cowper's celebrated picture "Monaroh of the Meadows" from his house at Lancaster Gate has been sentenced to be imprisoned for seven years. The bookseller, D. Atkins, charged with receiving the picture, knowing it to have been stolen, was acquitted. . Mr Oonkling, the leader of the Stalwart party in the United States, has deolined the offer of a Judgeship. Two more arrests in connection with the Hatton Garden jowelry robbery have been made iu Paris. .. The judioial oommittee of the Privy Council have decided that the natural daughter of the late Mr Bhodes, of Wellington, New Zealand, is entitled as residuary legatee to upwards of £300,000. v March 9. The Tunisian insurgents surprised a column of French troops and killed 100. Nine Europeans have been murdered at Kairwan.

Captain Eod's scheme for the construction of a ship railway across the Isthmus of Tehuantepeo, Mexico, has beon approved by the American Senate.

The committee of the House of Bepresentatives appointed to iuquire into the present condition of the American navy has reported it would be a national crime to further delay the strengthening the navy. _ The committee have advised the construction of steel vessels of the largest size. Sir A. Gait, now in Paris, is negotiating with Lord Lyons for the establishment of a commercial convention between ■ the dominion and Prance.

A union of colonial representatives will meet in London on the 7th June, for the discussion of various matters in connection with the colonial empire. The principal topics will be the admission of colonial wines into the United Kingdom, confederation of the oolonies, representation of the various colonies in the Imperial Parliament, and the existing colonial tariffs.

Maroh 9. The Postmester-General hopes to be able shortly to reduce the cost of money orders between England and the Australian colonies.

Hostilities are aotively oarried on between the Boers and some Zulu chiefs. Montisba Louga, one. of the most powerful chiefs, with a large force attaoked the Boers, and defeated them on two separate occaeions. Montisba Louga was killed in the second engagement. March 10.

James Bourke, partner of Patrick Egan, an Irish agitator, was plaoed under arrest for intimidation.

The Paris and Bordeaux Chambers of Commerce are strongly urging the adoption of a new commercial treaty between England and Franoe. It is believed at Whitehall that the Frenoh Government will shortly re-opon negotiations with England with that object. The relatives of the late Earl of Crawford are employing a clairvoyant in order to discover the body of the Earl. The death is announced of Sir Charles Wyville Thomson, aged 52. The persons arrested and oharged with the murder of the two bailiffs whoso bodies were found in Lough Marsh, been virtually discharged, the evidence being insufficient to e.oure a oonv ; ction. They are, however, still kept in custody as suspec-led. March 13. Mason, who fired at G-uiteau whilst being conveyed from the Ccurt to prison during the trial, has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment by the New York Criminal Court. Outrages in Cork are of frequent occurrenoe. The Rev. Dr. McCabe, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, has issued another pastoral, in which he denounces tb* sooieties.

In County Kerry a farmer and his wife have been shot at and fatally wounded. The ringleaders of tho anti-Jewish riots in Warsaw have been tried and found guilty, and it is probable tbey will be sentenoed to slight imprisonment only. The Austrian troops defeated the Orivoskiau insurgents after three days' fighting. The health of Sir Michael Costa is now completely restored.