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London, November 22. The match between Hanlon and Laycock is put off on account of Hanlon declining to pull under six weeks. [Special to the Melbourne "Argus."] (Per Tararua at the Bluff.) London, Nov. 8. At a meeting which was being addressed by Mr Parnellat Athlone the platform had been sawn through, and collapsed wilh the crowd upon it. Owing to a rumor of an invasion by sympathisers with the victims of the Land League a great part of Mayo is arming. November 10. The Orangemen are preparing for an invasion of the country la which the Land Leagues have been at work for the purpose of reaping the crops of a tenant farmer named Bycoat, a victim to the League at Btillinarobe, County Mayo, and disturbances being apprehended a stroDg military force has been despatched to the spot. ' A stormy scene has occurred in the French benate owing to the intense feeling displayed by the Members of the Right on the subject of the decrees for the expulsion of the Jesuits from Franco. November 11. The Tines demands the suspension of the Ha'eas Corpus Act in Ireland with a view to more effectually dealing with the present agitation. The Am rican journals, with the exception of a few democratic paperg, condemn the action of Mr Parnell in connection with the agitation in Ireland. The demand for Sir Charles Gavan Duffy's new historical work "Young Ireland" has been so great that a second edition will be immediately issued. A company has been registered in London with a capital of £300,000 to import Australian meat iuto England. The troops which were engaged in starving out the monastery at Tevascorn, in Fiance, contrived to enter the building by a subway. November 13 In the Nihilist trials which have taken place several of the accused have been found guilty and condemned to death. Goldenburg, the assassin of General Krapitone, turned approver before he committed suicide, and revealed the whole system and various plots to murder the Emperor of Russia. He assigned as his reaßou for revealing the Byatem that it was not calculated to effect the object of establishing constitutional Government in Russia. November 15. The City Guilds are making great efforts for the establishment of a Technical College in South Kensington, in the hope of rendering the report of the Royal Commissions innocuous. The speech delivered by Mr Gladstone at the Lord Mayor's banquet on the 9th iDstant ha& tended to lessen the distrust which exists with reference to the foreign policy of Great Britain. The foreign press interprets the Premier 'B utterance to mean that England is abandoning her isolated action with regard to Greece. A relief party of Orangemen, about 80 in number, from Monaghan reached Ballinrobe unmolested. A force of 7000 (?) military and police, including Artillery, were sent for yesterday, and are now between Ballinrobe and Claremorris towns in County Mayo.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue XV, 24 November 1880, Page 2
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