LATE CABLE NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2520, 19 April 1881, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Telegraph.]

(Per Te Anau at the Bluff.)

London, April 6.

The Irish Land Bill provides for the free sale of land, a fair rent at a fixed tenure of 15 years, an indemnity is to be paid to tenants if disturbed before the expiration of their lease equal to onefifth or three years’ rent, according to assessment.

April 8

The Oxford and Cambridge boat race was rowed over the usual course, the former winning easily by four lengths. Time 21 mins 56secs. In the House of Lords the Duke of Argyll, in explaining the causes of his withdrawal from the Government, said the Irish Land Bill paralysed the action of landlords in regard to the ownership of land, and was injurious to agriculture. Her Majesty’s ships Thunderer, Bittern, and Antelope sailed for Khio in order to relieve the unfortunate sufferers by the last disastrous earthquake. Surgeons and every 7 appliance for the relief of the wounded are on board each vessel.

A Fenian scare lias occurred at Ilavvarden Castle, Cheshire, Sir Gladstone’s country seat. Police have been ordered to the spot. Sir Parnell, in the course of; a speech on the new Irish Land Bill introduced b} 7 the Government, said that in two years he would give free land, and the right to Irishmen to make the laws of their own country.