NEWS BY GABLE.

Manawatu Herald, 26 August 1881, Page 2

NEWS BY GABLE.

♦- (reuter's telegrams). Paris, August 22. Intelligence is to hand from Tunis to the effect thai the Bey's troops are now co-oper-ating with the French army, with a view to suppress the rebellious feeling which is still manifest among the Arab tribes in tke interior. New York, August 22. The Irish Revolutionary Convention, which has recently been meeting at Chicago, decided upon an extended "dynamite" programme, and has issued a notification warning people to avoid patronising ships sailing under the British flag after the end of the present month. From that time the schemes of the Revolutionist* will, it is stated, commence to be carried into effect. VPASHitfOTON, August 23. Today's bulletin! reports that President Gartield 's condition has materially improved. The fits of vomiting have ceased, and he is again able to take food through the mouth. Sydney, August 24. A crowded public meeting was held last night, at the Masonic Hall, for the purpose of expressing sympathy with the persecuted Jews in Russia, and raising funds for their assistance. Resolutions were passed in accord with the object of the meeting, and a Committee was formed to collect subscriptions. Over £1000 was subsoribed in the room. No fresh cases of smallpox have been re* ported to the Board of Health today. One of the patients at the Quarantine Station, named Emerson, died of the disease at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Brisbane, August 24. Tn the action, Miles v. M 'll wraith, the plaintiff's case was concluded last night, when the defendant's counsel applied for a nonsuit. The Judge, however, decided to allow the case to go to the jury. The trial has been resumed today, and the defend* ant's case is now proceeding.