SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS TO MELBOURNE PAPERS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1384, 9 March 1881, Page 2

SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS TO MELBOURNE PAPERS.

London, February 23. It is supposed that the Government will abandon the Bill placing restrictions upon the possession of fire arms, which has been introduced into the House of Commons as a portion of the legislation in regard to Ireland. Parnell, who’is going from place to place in Ireland, addressing people, has withdrawn a portion of a speech he re-

contly made containing seditious matter. The Government are watching for legal proofs to enable them to arrest him. The Ashantee army, ndw marching on the Gold Coast Settlement, is reported to be enormous. An influentially attended meeting has been held in London in dppositioft to the proposal of the Government to abandon Candahar. The Pope has issued a manifesto-, in which he says that the Church is being attacked everywhere, and that the ne\v perils which assail her are aeri ms. February 24. Parnell has gone to Paris. He has given the leadership of his party td Justin McCarthy: The time of his absence from England is uncertain. He advises the Irish people to abandon holding meetings for the present. Lord Odo Russell, G.C.8., has beerl raised to the Peerage, with the title oil Baron Ampthill. The Democrats in Araerida are inaugurating free trade agitation. Archdeacon Dunbar’s wife is suing for a divorce from her husband. An earthquake at Azores has caused great destruction of life and property. Cambridge University has admitted women to the tripos examination. James Lyall and Co., merchants, of East India Avenue, Leadenhall street* have failed for £ 250,000 . February 26. Parnell has had an interview with Cardinal Guibert, Archbishop of Paris. A Fenian named Devdng has sent a cable message from America, threatening to kill Sir Wm, Vernon Harconrt. The controversy as to the retention of Candahar by the British continues. In connection ■with the peace negd-i tiations between the Government at the Cape and the Basutos, the Imperial Government have telegraphed to Sir Hercules Robinson, regretting that the Colonial authorities are so severe iu their demands from the Basutos. It is believed that the sanguinary war that has so long been waged between Chili and Peru, has been brought to a close: Terms of peace, it is re* ported, have been arranged, between the belligerents. The American bankers condemn the new Funding Bill. There is a semhpauic iii Hew York: