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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue XVI, 5 November 1881, Page 2

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Lcntdox, November 2. A rumor is current here that the negotiations which have been proceeding for the renewal of tbe Anglo-French commercial treaty have terminated without any satis- ! factory result being arrived at. The report, however, requires confirmation iis, so rai* as k; own, negotiation** have not yet been broken tift\ &cws is to hand from Ireland that Hots of a serious nature occurred to-day at Balinullct, a small seaport town }n County Mayo, in consequence of the act-on bi the authorities in collecting* the poor rates. A strong body of police escorting the tax collectors were attacked by a mob of people. Thc police fired upon them and several of the rioters were killed and wounded. -O.f the totter moreoVeiseveral are reported to oe dying. The irish Land Commission is overladen wilh bnsiness. Fresh cases for the decision of the Commissionersare being daily brought forward by both landlords and tenants. November 3. It has transpired that . the negotiations which are pj-o-^eflihg ac Paris for the re-ns-WAI bi. the Anglo-French commercial treaty were suspended on Friday last when the discussion of various clauses of the proposed treaty was concluded without any definite agreement being arrived at. It bas fuither transpired that Sir Charles Dilke and his colleagues, the British delegates, are returning to London pending farther instructions from the Government as to the future course to be pursued. ["Argus" Specials] (Per Te Anau at the Bluff.) Loxoon, October 28. Mr Gladstone, who is at present a guest of Earl Derby at Koowsley P«k, made a speech yesterday in which he referred at some length to tfce prospects of Ireland. Ha oxpressed himself as being hopeful cf the future bf Ireland. The rsvolntionory agitation which had prevailed waa quieting down. Tha Irish Land Commission appeared to work well and was gi»in-» satisfaction, and the tanantry were evincing adesirs to avail themselves rf its assisisneo in Battling disputes relating to land. Tha Dynamite programme adopted by the Irish _ Revolutionary Convention in New York is baing given efEect to. A number of dynamite- cartridges have ber-n discovered in a cargo of cotton which has just arrived at Liverpool from the United States. The explosives were concealed in bales of cotton. Gambstta adheres to his intention uot to I form a Ministry until the Chamber of Deputies has beea afforded an opportunity of t-xpressing its general ©pinion upon the policy of the Feiy Cabinet. He asks the Chamber to elect him as President as a mark of confidence which would express approval of hia apprc aching advent to office. The general elections for tbe Reichstag took plr.ee yesterday when the progressive party hostile to Prince Bismarck's policy carried tbe day. The prospect of Gambetta's early accession to power as Prime Minister of France is regarded with disfavour in Germany. Prince Bismarck, the Imperial Chanoellor, objects to a Ministry constructed by him. A German steamer has batn seized is the Dardanelles with 40 tons of dynamite on board, which it was intended to have discharged at the seaport of Odessa in the Black Sea, and Taganrog, a fortified town in the Sea of Azof. Fourteen thousand casks of dynamite had been previously landed in Syria, Ireland, and the Grecian Archipelago. The Nihilists are suspected of beiog conI nected with the shipment.