CABLE NEWS.
(From our own Corristonornt.) LONDON, August 18. A Parnellite named Lynch has been elected for the County of Sligo, iu the room of the late Denis O’Connor. The Tory candidate who opposed Lynch was defeated by a large majority. The French Government have informed Earl Granville, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, that Mr Shaw, a British missionary at Tamatave, is How on board a French imnclitd, nnd that he will be dealt with according to martial law, but will be allowed the right of appeal. A disturbance took place to day at Down, Ireland, at the eviction of some tenants. A body of policemen were escorsing process server, when they were attacked by sympathisers of the tenants, and in the fight which ensued two policemen were shot at and seriously wounded. Accounts to band from the hop districts are more favorable, the recent fine weather having produced a vast improvement in the crops. A ugusf 21. Continuous rioting, lasting many hours, has taken place between a number of Catholics and Protestants, at Coatbridge, a town nine miles from Glasgow, in the centre of the I anarkshire mineral district. Many persons have been injured on both sides. ALEXANDRIA, August 13. The latest reports from Cairo state that cholera has now entirely ceased in that city. The epidemic is d ecreasing here, and it is hoped that the further spread of the|diseasel has been stayed.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1346, 23 August 1883, Page 3
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