LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 57, 8 March 1881, Page 2

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

[KMDTSit'fi Telegrams per Pbbes Association."]

ANOTHER AGRARIAN OUTRAGE IN IRELAND.

TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY,

ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOST,

London, March 7.,

Notwithstanding the powers vested in the Viceroy, by the Coercion Act, the Land League continues in active agitation and several meetings under its auspices were held yesterday in Ireland.

News has come to hand to-day that an agrarian murder of a dastardly character has been committed in County Westmeath, Ireland,

The Daily IVcios to-day publishes a telegram from Natal staling that information has reached there that an interview had taken place between Sir George Evelyn Wood and Joubert the commander of the Boer forces, which has resulted in a week's j armstice (i.e. until the 15th insi.) -being agreed to. No official confirmation of the statement has yet transpired. Naples, March 7. A severe earthquake has occurred in the Island of Ischia, situated off the B*y of Naples, and great destruction to. property. and losb of life has been caused, fully 100 persons baring perished in the ruins of the houses and other buildings. Ca^b Town, March 7. Intelligence has been received h^re from Natal that heavy floods in Transvaal will prevent any operations by the British troopa against the Boers in that country. Washington, March 7. Mr Blain has been appointed United States Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. ("Argus" Specials.) [Per Ringarooma at the Bluff. | London, February 24. It is supposed that the Government will abandon the Bill providing for the restriction upon the possession of firearms which has been introduced into the House of Commons as a portion of the legislation in regard to Ireland. : Parnell has withdrawn a portion of the speech he recently made containing seditious matter. The Government are watching for legal proofs to enable them to arrest him. j The Aahantee army now marchiDg on the "Gold Coast settlement is . -reported to be enormous. An influentially attended meeting has been held in London in opposition to the proposal of the Government to abandon Candahar. The Pope has issued a manifesto in which he says that the Cburch is being attacked everywhere and that the new perils which assail her are serious. Parnell has gone to Patis. He has given the leadership of the party to Mr Justin McCarty. The time of bis absence from England is uncertain. He advises the Irish people to abandon holding meetings for the present. Lord Odo Russell^G. C. 8., has been raised to a peerage with a title of Baron Arnpthall. The Democrats in America are inaugurating. a free trade agitation. . Archdeacon Dunbar's wife is sueing for a divorce from her husband. ' ; ' James Lyall and Co , merchants, of Indian Avenue, Leadenball-street, have fai ed for £250,000. Parnell has had an understanding with Cardinal Gaibert, the Archbishop, of Paris. A Fenian named Devaney has sent a cable message from America threatening to. kill Sir Vernon. Harcourt. - The controversy as to the retention of Candahar by the British'stUl continues. In connection with 1 Ihe peace negotiations between the Government at the Cape and the Basutos, the Imperial Government has telegraphed to Sir Hercules Robinson regretting that the. Colonial: authorities are so severe in their, demr.nds. from the Basutos. It is believed^ that. the sanguinary war that has so long be,en. waged between Chili and Peru has been brought to a close, terms of peace, it is reported', having been arranged between the belligerents.. . The American bankers condemn the new Funding Bill* and there is a semi-panic in New York.. An animated debate has taken place in the French Chamber^ Deputies over the foreign policy adopted by .tbe Ministry, and the Goverutnent were condemned for having encouraged Greece in the attitude she had taken up to maintain her demands upon Turkey for the, cession of territory. Special reference- was made to the course adopted by Gambetta. '., Gambetta. made a powerful speech, and repudiated the charge of bayjng coquetted with Greece, or of having given any assurances of. French support of her claims. His statements were challenged, and a stormy scene ensued.. The proposal to hold an International Exhibition in New York, in 1883 hangs. fire, A site has been secured in the Wood in the .immediate vicinity of the city, but the public have not responded to- the scheme of raising the necessary funds by {he issue: of debentures. General Grant, the late President, in an address delivered by him on the subject has expressed great regret at the apathy displayed, and appeals, to the people of ;the United States to do their utmost to 'su'ecessfully'carry out the project. ..