LATE CABLE NEWS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2504, 18 April 1882, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[Per s.s. Wakatipu. at Wellington.]

[“ Aqb ” Specials.]

LONDON, April f. The taxation riots in Catalonia have not yet been suppressed. The Spanish Government has proclaimed a state of siege in the towns of Gerona, Taragona, and Lerida. M, Freycinet, French Premier, has announced that owing to the continued resistance offered by the Arab tribes in Tunis, and with a view of establishing order in the country as speedily as possible, the Government require a large grant of money. Three thousand Chinese started from Hong Kong for the United States via British Columbia. They hope to get into the Slates despite the attempt on the part of Congress to keep them out by prohibitory legislation.

Mr Parnell was released on parole for a week, so that he may attend the funeral of hia sister’s child at Paris, He looks paler and is thinner than when he first entered Kilmainham. His eyes are also bad, but otherwise he is in good health and spirit*. Mr Parnell has declined to accept any political demonstration in hia honor.

A large meeting of unemployed was held at Trafalgar square, at which resolutions were carried urging upon the Government the necessity of providing means for assisting family migration to the colonies. It has been discovered that the railway was mined in no less than eleven different places between Bt. Petersburg and Moscow.

Special to “ Stdnkt Morning Herald.” LONDON, April 8.

The " Spectator ” publishes an article advocating the release of the ‘' suspects ” who have been imprisoned in Ireland under the Coercion Act for political offences. English special tribunals have been appointed to deal with offenders brought to trial for agrarian crimes in Ireland. The police authorities advise that the approaching coronation of the Czar should take place elsewhere than in Moscow, inasmuch as they are despairing of their efforts to prevent an outrage vpon his Majesty. Apiil 9. French gunboats have bombarded King-nine, on the Gold Coast of Africa, in punishment for the recent massacre of French traders there. The port has been blockaded by the French, and trading Europeans have protested against this course of action. The death is announced -of Denis Florence McCarthy, the Irish poet, aged sixty-two years. An agreement has been arrived at between the European Powers for modifying the clauses of the Egyptian organic law relating to the Imperial financial control. Turkey has not been consulted. April 10. M De Giera has been definitely appointed to succeed Prince Gortachakoff as Minister of Foreign Affairs in Russia. It is believed that this appointment will load to the inauguration of a peaceful policy on the part of Russia. The Russian army will shortly be reduced by 38,000 men. The ‘ no rent” agitation in the Highlands of Scotland is spreading. A process server in the Isle of Skye has been maltreated, and his documents burned. A demonstration has taken place in Dublin, at which those members wto voted for cloture were denounced The British Envoy has started for Cabul. NEW YOKE., April 8. Very severe weather was experienced over the whole of the United States, and destructive cyclones are reported in Kansas and Michigan, and several persons were killed. PARIS, April 8. Intelligence has been received from Tunis of a sanguinary engagement between the French troops and levies of the insurgent leader. Bon Avina. The latter were completely annihilated, but Bon Avina himself succeeded in making his escape. * GOLETTA, April 8. A largo number of Tunisian insurgents have crossed the frontier, and have taken refuge in Tripoli. ST. PETERSBURG, April 9. Attacks on the Jews in Russia have recommenced, and some terrible scenes were enacted at Kherson, where tha peasants demolished 100 houses and destroyed a considerable amount of property of tha Jewish residents.