REUTERS TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1633, 21 December 1881, Page 2

REUTERS TELEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

London, December 18,

The Marqtiis of Hartington, Secretary of State for India, made a speepli to-day at Barriley, Lancashire; in the course of which he stated that although the Land Leaguers were continuing a guerilla warfare in Ireland, there were hopeful signs that the agitation in the country was gradually diminishing. Among the chief of these was the fact of an increasing tendency which has of late been shown on the part of juries 1 to convict the agrarian offences. December i 9. The statement which has been rent to tlie effect that the Queen would open Parliament in person is officially denied. News to hand from Ireland states' that the police' yesterday proceeded to a house in Dublin, and made a"ii exl;en : sive seizure'of dynamite,guripowder, and arms; and, iri addition, a number of documents implicating several persons: The persons in charge of the house were arrested, and the arrest oi others' wili be made; Obituary George Edmund Street; the eminent architect, aged 57. A storm of unusual severity was experienced over a great part of Eng : laud last nii»ht. The wind blew with hurricane force, and caused immense destruction to prdperty iri several places; A disastrous explosion of fire-damp occurred to day at Abram colliery, ne'ar' Wigun, in Lancashire, by which it is feared many lives will be lost. A large number of men were at work in the mine at the time the disaster o'cciirred, arid of them fully 200 have not ye'fc been rescued. Alexandria, December 22. Tlie steamship Europa, from Australia for London, with a cargo of frozen meat, lids passed through the canal. Her cargo is reported to be iri p'e'rfec'fc condition: