LATE CABLE NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2538, 10 May 1881, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[Br Telegraph.]

(Per Wakatipu at Wellington.)

London. April 27. Emila Girardin, a well-known French journalist, is dead. The Bey of Tunis has implored the aid of the Great Powers to settle the dispute with France. A terrible accident occurred on board the warship Menus at Wilhemshaven. While the artillery were practising a shell burst, and 26 persons were either killed or wounded. The proposed remission of duty on silver plate, announced by Mr Gladstone in his Budget Speech, has been abandoned. The Bey of Tunis, terrified at the active proceedings of the French, and at the hostile attitude of his own people, has surrendered to the invaders. It is likely that hostilities will cease unless the Tunisians show a disposition towards further resistance. At the half yearly meeting of the Orient Steamship Company, the report was adopted. No dividend was declared and the directors agreed to forego part of their commission in order to make up the requisite sum to be carried to the credit of the reserve fund. Mr Gladstone has addressed a Circular letter to the .Homan Catholic Bishops of the United Kingdom, in which he intimates that he cannot agree to make the changes they require in the Irish Land Bill, which would, he says, give the Bill an entirely new character. Edward Miall, proprietor and editor of the “ Nonconformist,” is dead. Ho was 72 years of age. Heavy floods have occurred in the Missouri Eiver, causing great destruction to property. The amount of damage is estimated at 4,000,000 dols. In consequence of the threatening attitude of the Boers the British troops again occupy Protchefstroom in tne Transvaal. A bailiff in Galway was roasted till he promised to resign his position.