LATE CABLE NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2392, 16 November 1880, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS.

London, Nov. 8. Owing - to the rumor of an intended invasion by persons sympathising with the victims of the Land League, the people in the greater part of the County of Mayo are arming. Monastic exptdsions are causing increased excitement in France. From Chatreuse the priests have emigrated to Switzerland. The troops are starving out the inmates of the Monastery at Tarrascuo. The papers review favorably a work just issued by Sir Charles Gavin Duffy, entitled “ Thirty Years History of Young Ireland.” The town of Orudquauk lately beseiged by Khurdsis again in a critical position. The Khurdish chief crucified thirty of his followers for excesses perpetrated by them mi Persian Nov. !». Mr Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, informed the members of the press in Dublin to-day that the meeting together of larger numbers of persons than were actually necessary to protect the crops of the victims of the Irish Land League would be likely to produce a collision, and therefore such meetings would be illegal. He stated, however, that the Government would protect persons who were likely to become victims of the leaguers.