LATEST ENQLISH NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 248, 10 December 1880, Page 2

LATEST ENQLISH NEWS.

ANOTHER MURDEROUS OUTRAGE

IN IRELAND.

MORE EARTHQUAKES IN AUSTRIA.

London, December 8.

Consols 100£. Adelaide wheat ex warehouse 60s 6d. December 9,

News has been received of another serious murderous outrage in Ireland. A bailiff, while executing a decree for the eviction of a tenant from a farm at Cookstown, in County Tyrone, was set npon by the tenant and a number of his sympathisers, and murdered by them before he could escape. Vienna, December 8. The northern district of Croatia, in the south-east of Austria, which last month'suffered bo terribly from earthquakes, has again been visited by a severe shock which has caused further damage to the town of Agram and its surroundings. The panic which previously prevailed amongt the inhabitants has been renewed with increasing intensity. The greatest consternation exists and the gravest fears are are entertained that further shocks of earthquake may have a worse effect than any yet experienced. Calcutta, December 8. Viceroy of India (the Marquis of Ripon), who had recovered from the fever which recently attacked him at Allahabad in the North-west provinces, is now detained at that town by a serious sunstroke which be has received. His Excellency is completely prostrated, but his medical attendants give hopes of his early recovery. December 9.

Frequent telegrams have come to hand from Allahabad regarding the state of the Marquis of Ripon. The latest bulletin reports that His Excellency is rapidly recovering from the effects of the sunstroke, and is now out of danger.

Capetown, Dec. 8,

News to hand from the seat of hostilities in Basutoland and the adjoining districts states that after several severe engagements between the Colonial forces and the tribes of the Pondos the latter have, owing [to a succession of defeats, been utterly routed.