LATE CABLE NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6498, 24 December 1881, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[Abode Specials j LONDON, Dxo. 18. Nothing has been heard of the balloon which drifted across the English Channel. Grave fears ore now entertained for toe safety of Mr Walter Powell, the member far Malmsbury, and the ether occupants. The French flag has been hoisted at Bai&tea or Ulieta, a mountainous bat exceedingly fertile island belonging to the Society Group, about 180 miles north-west of Tahiti, over which the French have long exorcised a protectorate. The island is about 40 miles in circumference.

A luge number of the victims at the calamity at the Bing Theatre, Vienna, were interred yesterday. The ceremony assumed the proportions of a semi-public funeral. The Archduke Budolf, the heir apparent to the throne, and other members of the Court, with the dignitaries of the Cathedral of St Stephen, joined in the procession. At the cemetery the clergy of four churches united to conduct the service. Many heartrending scenes occurred as the coffins—l 62 in silvers being consigned to the grave. The Conservatives regard with disapprobation the proposal of too Bight Hon J. W. Ellis, Lora Mayor of London, to raise a fond to assist in the defence of the right of owners of property in Ireland. They assert that the effect of suck a schema will be to supplant the proper functions of the State as the protector of life and property, by the efforts of private and irresponsible persons. The promoters of the movement held a Srivatc meeting at the Mansion House toay, at which (hey vigorously denied the charge that they were usurping the functions of the Government, and stated that the fund was being organised to afford compensation to the “ boycotted" landlords of Inland. The Liberal mss, as well as the Conservative organs, denounce the movement ae impolitic. A meeting, which was attended by many of the most influential persons in the kingdom, was held in London yesterday, to a-range for the erection of a national memorial to the late Dr Stanley, Dean of Westminster. Dsc. 14. The Government of Tunis have forcibly expelled the servants of Mr Levy, a British subject, from the Buflda Estate, which under the Moslem law of pre-emption he claims to. bo his property, in opposition to a counter claim nut forward by the Sooietc Marseillaise. The French company have been placed in possession of the estate. Great indignation is expressed in Vienna against the police and firemen who were present at the fire at the Bing Theatre for neglecting to break open the doors of the building, and time facilitate the escape of the immense audience. The managers of theatres in London have been officially warned to take every precaution to facilitate the escape of audiences in the event of an alarm of fire occurring. Several steamers expected from America and other foreign parte are overdue since the recent heavy gales in the Atlantic. Considerable alarm is felt for the safety of the misting vessels. Since the discovery of the outrage perpetrated upon the remains of Earl Crawford, steps have been taken, by direction of Her Majesty, to protect the Royal mausoleum at Frogmore Fhrk.