CABLE NEWS

Patea Mail, 21 August 1880, Page 3

CABLE NEWS

RECEIVED LAST NIGHT. (Reuters Special Despatches to the Mail.) OUTWARD STEAMER. Adelaide, 20th. The Orient Company’s steamship John Elder, which left Plymouth on the 9th July, has arrived here. COERCION FOR IRELAND. London, 19th. It now transpires that Mr W. E. Forster, Chief Secretary tor Ireland, has gone to that country with the object of enquiring whether coercive measures are necessary for suppression of the disorder now prevailing there. MR GLADSTONE’S HEALTH. London, 19th. It is announced that Mr Gladstone will proceed to Italy or to Madeira in a time, for change of air. STORMS AND FLOODS. Berlin, 19th. Serious storms and floods in Russia have caused great damage to a large extent of country, destroying growing crops. TRANS-AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY. Brisbane, Friday. In the Legislative Assembly last night the Colonial Treasurer announced that Government intend this session to introduce a Bill authorising the construction of a trans-continental railway to the Gulf of Carpentaria, on the principle of paying the contractors by land grants. FIGHTING AT CANDAHAR. , Calcutta, 19 th. Report comes that Ayoub Khan sent a strong force to attack the Sharpin' gate of citadel at Candahar, and heavy firing between British troops and the enemy was maintained from morning to evening. The British loss is said to have been trifling, LONDON WOOL SALES. London, ISth, The wool sales opened with prices at’ from a halfpenny to a penny lower than last sales.