NEWS bY CABLE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 39, 14 January 1881, Page 2

NEWS bY CABLE.

w ■:■_. ( ltßUiT.il S TJSL GUAAIS). *- London, January 10. Acting under instructions fropi tho Government, the authorities In Irei land continue to take active meaaur^ to repress the disorder which still prevails in many districts. Further arrests of Leaguers have been made, £ and fche accused kept in custody, and warrants will continue to be issued forthe arrest and imprisonment of prominent agitators. All landjmeetings are forbidden, and # every endeavor is being made to" suppress "Boycotting," or the ostracising of landlords, to prevent the gathering of the crops in the manner adopted against Mr Boycott, of l.illinrobe. Vienna, January 10. The marriage wliich was arranged to t*ke place next month beween the Crown Prince Budolph of Austria aud the Princess Stephaine has been postponed. Capetown, January 10. r News has been received that the rebellion of the tribes in the Transkei is gradually subsiding, and hostilities are almost entirely suspended. Melboubne, January 10. In the Corio Bay Begatta the Vic- . torian yacht Janet was first, with the Auckland yacht Taniwha second. The ship Hereford, bound from London to this port, has become a total wreck on Cape Patton. All lives have been saved. January 11. The ship Hereford, which has gone . ashore at Cape Patton, is not yet a total wreck, but is likely to become so. The South Australian, West Australian, Tasmanian, and Victorian delegates to the intercolonial conference leave Melbourne tomorrow for Sydney. Cooktown, January 11. Further news to hand conni*i__s the information received yesterday of the massacre of the Chinese crew of the schooner Prosperity, by the natives of Leocade Island, and states that the bodies were smoke-dried, and the . heads sent to the various villages.