LATE CABLE NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6504, 31 December 1881, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[Pirn Paxes AoaccUTiOH.] (Per r. 9. Wakstipu, vifi Wellington.} fHsutU) SrßciAia.] LONDON, Deo. 10. The Gorman Beichsteg havore*oleotod their President and Vioo.Pmidcnt A Bedouin murdered a soldier at Sees. He affair led to a riot among the military, in toe course of which the Governor was subjected to outrage. Dec. 20. Eighteen Socialists have been arrested in Vienna. Forty deaths were caused by an explosion at the Abram Colliery, Wigan, Lancashire. He Lord Mayor of Xoodon has com* monioated with the Provincial Mayors, re* questing their co-operation in the move* monte initiated for the defence of property in Ireland during the present period of law* leesnesi. , A farmer was murdered at Abbey Leix, Queen's County, Ireland. In consequence of the incressiug attitude amnmed by prominent members of the Ladies* Land League, Government have determined to suppress the organisation, and the authorities are preparing the prison at Graogsgormao, County Dublin, for the re* ception of political offenders. He Governor of Eastern Siberia reports that the crowd! tbe schooner /eanetto, fitted out for Arctic exploration purposes by James Gordon Bennett, the proprietor of the Nm York EeraU, and generally believed to have per* isbed, hoe been discovered safe. Dio. 21. Tbe Atlantic steamer, Bath City, has been wrecked, and ten people driwned. She was a veesel of 1724 tons, and built in 1880. Members of the Ladies Laud League, suppressed by Government as a seditions and illegal assoobtlcß, have held a meeting and openly defied the action of the Government. A gas explosion of a eerioue nature occurred in Vienna, causing several deaths, and In* juries otitam The Customs authorities of Hew York havo discovered 1800 mm of riles, ebippsd from Liverpool, and described as hardware. The Orient Company's now sterner Australia, built entirely of steel, was launched to*day. She is intended for the Anglo-Aus-tralian trade. A thermometer known to have been in the balloon In which Mr Powell, M.P., was a passenger, has been picked up on the sands near Portland. Hera is searoely a doubt that the balloon and all in it have neon lost. D 50.22. Six ladies have contributed £sooo to (he fond initiated for the defence of property during tbe present period of lawlessness in Ireland. Dnc. 28. Since the catastrophe at the Eeng Theatre, in Vienna, the public have almost entirely forsaken the other theatres io the city. In order to restore confidence, the lessees of various theatre* have formed a deputation to the Iroperor, asking that expert# be appointed to report on mean# of egress from builclioge. Seventeen British sailor* were arrested at Hew Orleans for causing a disturbance at a PU He rtatoment that Mr Parnell has been removed from the Kilmalnham to the Armagh gaol is without foundation. [Hxws Smoum.J LONDON, Duo. 19. He Bev Father Bobert Donn ha» been appointed Bishop of Brisbane, and the Bov Dr Cano, Bishop of Bookhampton. Tbe British Government has agrw»d to make a present to the Hew South Wales Government of 8.M.9. Wolverine, fully armed. He material eeixed by the authoritiee of Dublin, which it ie believed wae Intended to be used for seditious purposes, Includes 30 rifles, 10,000 cartridges and bullet*, a email quantity of dynamite, and a number of sword bayonets. „ . . Mr Freybugheien, the new Secretary of State of the united State#, is pursuing ». i 'Sul. afsavMi.siS Government out of the diJfloulliee into which I

the policy of ths Isle Secretary, Mr Blaine, landed it.

... Dm, 20. Prince Bismarck is recovering his health. M. Gambetla refuses to retract the statement he made recently, to the effect (hat the British Government had recognised the treaty entered into between Franco and the Boy of Tunis. Ea»l Granville it much annoyed at the obstinacy of the French Premier. A stormy scene occurred in the London Gammon Council, in connection with the movement started for the defence of property in Ireland. The Council refuses to subscribe to the fund started by the Lord Mayor of London.

Dio. 81. Several female Land Leaguer* are making themselves very prominent, and daring the authorities to a*rest them. Their meeting places only are rioted, and the police take no notice of the agitators unless they become conspicuous as vagrants or otherwise break the peace in the streets. The Police Courts then deal with them.

Further intelligence has been received In reference to the schooner Jeannette. She reached a higher latitude in the Arctic Ocean in June last, and then beoame blocked in the too and so crushed that she had to be abandoned. Some of tbe crow perished from cold and hunger. The survivors took to the boat*, and alter many privatione and being almost famished, reached the great Siberian river Lena, which flows into the Arctic Ocean. This they navigated in their boat*, and having been hospitably treated by the natives, reached the city of Irkutsk. It ie from thin city that telegraphic news of their safety was despatched. The news created great excitement in America. The Montreal branch of the Irish Land League threaten to publieh the names of Irish residents who refuse to contribute to the funds of the Irieh National Convention in Chicago. Several Nihilists have been arrested in St Petersburg who were detected carrying dynamite enclosed in orange*. Dao. 88. Mr Hamlin, the United States represents* live at the Court of Madrid,hdeemented his credentials to King Alphonso XII. The King, in reply, expressed his sympathy with the American people in the loss they had sustained by the death of President Garfield. The Swies House of Assembly have under consideration a Bill granting succour and; protection to sufferers by the disastrous earthquakes which have been experienced throughout the cantons. The workmen who were engaged in eon* struolicg the 8t Gothord tunnel through the Alps have been paid off. The French troops are suffering considerably from cold and exposure in Algeria, and much sickness prevails.