BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2487, 10 March 1881, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Reuter’s Agency.j Severe Storms and Xioss of Xilfo. London. March 8, Very severe hurricanes, accompanied by heavy falls of snow, have been experienced over the greater part of Scot land, during the past twenty-four hours. Great damage has been done to property. Terrible gales have raged on the coast, and numerous shipwrecks, resulting in great loss of life have been caused. So far as can be at present ascertained, fully one hundred persons have been drowned in vessels, which have foundered at ports and off the coast. The Irish Revolution. The Irish Judges of the Assize, in their charges to the Grand Juries at the Courts which were opened yesterday in the Irish provinces, again took occasion to refer to the alarming state of the country, and deplored, in forcible terms, the continued occurrence of an enormous amount of undetected crime.

Twenty persons have been arrested in Ireland on warrants issued by the Viceroy under the Coercion Act. In the House of Commons to-day a disorderly scene again occurred. O’Donnell, member for Dungarvon, was most unruly, and defied the chair in violent language. He was then by the Speaker’s order suspended for the remainder of the sitting. Monetary. The Bank of Australasia has declared a divident of sis per cent for the halfyear. Feeding: the Beaolged. Capetown, March. 8. Intelligence has been received from Natal that, taking advantage of the provisions of the armistice with the Boers, Sir Evelyn Wood lias already despatched convoys of provisions to the British garrisons at Pretoria, Wakkerstroom, Standesta, and other places in the Transvaal.