SPECIAL CABLEGRAM.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 912, 19 March 1879, Page 2

SPECIAL CABLEGRAM.

(KKOM OIK OWN COHUESI'OXDEXTS.) j Loxi>f»", March IS. ] Wheat is quiet and easy. Tin is firm , ami hardening. At Belfast on St. Patrick s Day riots occurred, and the police and military were called tuit. . Tlie Swiss Government have appointed a commission in connection with the proposed Melbourne International Exhibition. In the House of Commons the Irish members have obstructed the army estimates. Sydney, March lb. F..ley and Hieken hold their prize light at Moama on Wednesday. March 19. The following news is by the Torres Straits mail : . j BeLdnin has declined to withdraw the dutv on English iron. Sweeping American army reforms are m progress. Treason lias been perpetrated is nig'i German circles, betraying important army secrets. . . The Nov." Guinea coast aflair is unsettled. Irons and V.'ills, traders, have been murdered. The Cloudy Bay natives found Irons, suffering from fever, on the beach, and speared him, decapitating his body. Wills, who was c..okiii'_r, was also decapitated and etteii.'The natives were courageously ..racked and repulsed by an avenging boat's crew. Numerous other deaths of Hiirni.ean and native teachers,' by poisonv.\S bvthe deadly upas tree extract, drinkiti" ir with water. A Chinese junk was attacked. Three natives were killed, and a chief wounded. Ciioktowx. March !'•). A Chinese mutiny has occurred on board the Svdnoy barque Kate Witers. Ir v.as bloody, and caused the promotion of one man' as captain. The first and and second olliccrs, carpenter, and boy, •vei-e slaughtered and thrown overboard. The mutineers wrecked the ship at Labuan. and quarrelled over the spoil. The informer effected the arrest of the mutineers, and they will be sent to Hong Kong for trial.