BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2564, 9 June 1881, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Reuter's Agenct.j Massacre of Frenchmen. Paris, Juno 6. Telegrams have been received from Algeria reporting that a party of 26 engineers and workmen engaged in the construction of a lino of telegraph have been massacred by native Arabs. Stop the Evictions! London, June 6. An open air mass meeting was held at Hyde Park to-day with reference to the state of affairs in Ireland. Mr Parnell, M.P. for Cork, was present, and addressed the meeting, commenting upon the present condition of that country, and demanding that Government should at ouce take steps to put a stop to the eviction of tenants from their holdings, in order to avert the serious consequences that would result if such practices wore permitted to continue. Hard on the “ Force/’ At a meeting under the auspices of the Ladies’ League,held at Tullato-day } Miss Parnell, in a speech which she made on the occasion, counselled the people to adopt measures to completely ostracise the police iu Ireland. The Panama Canal The question of neutrality of the Intel-oceanic Canal, in course of construction across the Isthmus of Panama,

is now being considered by the Great Powers, but up to the present time no definite information as to the result of the negotiations has transpired.