LATE CABLE NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2550, 24 May 1881, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

(From Australian papers.) In Scotland a strong agitation has

been set on foot among the farming population, with the object of having the principles of il land legislation embodied in the'lrish Land Bill extended to Scotland. The movement is regarded as one likely to have important results in effecting changes of tenure throughout Great Britain.

The stream of emigration to the United States from Great Britain, Germany, and other European countries continues unchecked. On Monday last no less than GSOO people landed in New York*

The warlike feeling in Greece is very strong. Intense dissatisfaction exists amongst the army at the prospect of a settlement of the frontier difficulty with Turkey without any fighting, and a mutinous spirit is displayed.

The Russian Government has despatched a special mission tp Cabul to negotiate a commercial treaty with the Ameer, Abdul Kahman, and to felicitate him upon the withdrawal from the country of British troops. The Island of Cyprus has been" overrun by a plague of locusts, which have devastated the country, destroying crops and all vegetation.

The Committee of Divines and Scholars,who have been for some time engaged upon the revised translation of the Scriptures, have completed the revision of the New Testament, which has just been issued. :

Adelina Patti has announced her intention of retiring from the operatic stage. Her farewell performances will take place next 3 - ear, after which she will retire into private life. Edward Trickett, the well-known Sydney oarsman, will not return to Australia. He has decided to remain in England, having become the landlord of a sporting tavern in the village of Barnes, on tho Thames. The Christian population of Karilsca in Macedonia, have rebelled. An engagement has taken place between the insurgents and the Turks, in which the latter were defeated. Mr Wm. Anderson Ogg, Australian merchant, of the firm of Messrs Prince, Ogg and Co., has been chosen Sheriff of London. The French threaten to occupy Tunis directly any Turkish vessels appear in La Galotte, the port of the capital. Tho Bey of Tunis has telegraphed to Earl Granville, Foreign Secretary of State that his position is critical, and asks England and the other European Powers to interfere and compel France to declare her intentions. An election has taken place at Knarneshorough, Yorkshire,the seat for which has been vacant since July 1880, when Sir Henry Thompson, who was elected in the Liberal interest, was unseated on petition. The election has resulted in favor of a Conservative candidate. Haffernan, a prominent member of the Land League at Cork, and four others, have been arrested and lodged in gaol. Further agrarian outrages are reported in Ireland, and Lord Dunalloy’s bailiff has been shot.

The Mahsue military expedition under General Kennedy, which was sent to punish the Waziris hill tribe in Northern India, is returning. During the past fortnight a number of evictions have taken place in Ireland, attended by a determined resistance of the people to the execution of the law. Two affrays occurred at Clogher Ballimore. The mob was so violent that the police were compelled to fire in selfdefence, killing and wounding several. At Ballimore two constables were savagely beaten and mortally injured. Mr Gladstone introduced bis Budget on 4th April. He took an unduly desponding view of the National prosperity. The income tax is to be reduced at sd, a surtax on foreign spirits being instituted according to the new method. The tax on silver plate will be gradually abolished during six years hence. The legacy duty on sums below £3OO will be reduced 1 per cent, and a probate duty of i per cent, will be imposed. Small estates will be submitted to the payment of an additional 2*- per cent probate, which is to be accepted in lieu of legacy duty for whatever is short. Terminable annuities will be readjusted, and more than £1,500,000 released. Mr Gladstone hinted at future radical reforms in regard to probate and sucession duties, and also to the position of cor porations holding property on mortgage. Government obtained a majority of 120 in a division on the Candahar question, which was submitted in the House of Commons. The prosecution of Johann Moet, editor of the London Socialistic paper “Die Freiheit,” is disapproved of by the “ Times’’ and several other papers as injurious and unnecessary.