LATE CABLE NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2586, 5 July 1881, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

By the Eotomahana, which arrived at the Bluff yesterday, we are placed in possession of the following cable items from Australian papers■

London. June 20.

Russian troops are being massed upon the frontier, for the purpose of entering Kashgar, and a conflict with the Chinese Army is imminent. Admiral Dalrymplc Hay, the member for Wigton, has given notice of his in-

tention to more in a months’ time a resolution affirming that, owing to the frequency of massacres in the South Seas by natives, the safety of the lives of white men requires that the naval officers in command of Her Majesty’s men-of-war on the Australian station should be given supreme authority to deal with all outrages, and that the powers of the High Commissioner of the Western Pacific • should to this extent be curtailed.

June 22.

It is only the Irish members of the House of Commons who are criticising the Land Bill in Committee.

The “ New York Herald” has published the opinions of several Irish members of the House of Commons, including those of Parnell and McCarthy, who advocate the federation of Great Britain and her colonies, with a Parliament based on the American principle, each colony to send representatives and the number of British members to be reduced in proportion to the new members returned. The Hon. James Service has been elected an honorary member of the Reform Club. In the House of Commons the second reading of the Bill for the abolition of capital punishment has been negatived by a majority of 95. The census returns of the United Kingdom are now complete. The total population is 35,000,000, being 17,000,000 males and 18,000,000 females. This shows an increase of 4,000,000 persons for the last ten years. A shocking murder of a farmer has taken place in Dublin. The House of Lords has affirmed a resolution that there is no necessity on the part of the British Government to interfere in the Franco-Tuuiaian question.

The United States Government, in reply to a communication from the British Government regarding the presence and movements of prominent Fenians in New York, has replied that there is no evidence that any criminal acts which have been perpetrated in the United Kingdom have been concocted by Fenians in New York. The comet is now visible from the Observatories of Greenwich, England, and Washington, in the United States. Charles Dillon, the well-known actor, is dead. Jnne 24. The Chinese authorities are making strenuous efforts to place the navy on a sound basis. Greece has determined upon increasing her navy, and an order for the construction ot six ironclads has been sent to France. The hop harvest of England promises to be a very favorable one this season. The Kaffir tribes in the Transvaal are showing strong signs of discontent with the Boer Government, and an outbreak against their rule is considered imminent. June 27. The protectionist movement is spreading in Germany. The advocates claim that it should he generally enforced throughout the whole Empire. There is a strike amongst the nailers of Worcestershire and Staffordshire. Thirty thousand have struck for an advance on the present rate of wages. The Government have decided to prosecute the parties concerned in the stealing of the Ferret, and the prosecution will be conducted by the Lord Advocate, the Eight Hon. John McLaren.