LATE CABLE NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2597, 18 July 1881, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

By the Rotorua, which arrived at the Bluff yesterday, we are placed in possession of the following cablegrams which have appeared in Australian papers:— London, July 6.

Complications arising out of the Franco-Tunisian trouble, are assuming an alarming aspect. It is feared that it will give rise to a European eruption, France is mobilising 100,000 troops. It is announced that the French Government will send an army to occupy Tunis for at least three months, for the purpose of maintaining order in Africa. The European Cabinets were officially advised of the steps taken. The heat in England is unusually severe, especially in London. At a military review at Aldershot four soldiers were killed by sunstroke, and between 30 and 40 affected with it, some of them being seriously. July 7. July 4th and sth were fearfully hot in America, and numerous cases of fatal sunstroke are reported from New York. The death is announced of the Rev John Gumming, D.D., minister of the Scotch church, Crown Court, Covent Garden, and the author of several

devotional and controversial works. He was 69 years of age. According to the latest census returns the population of London now numbers nearly 4,000,000, showing an increase of half-a-million during the last ten years. July 9. - The police have succeeded in arreste ing tho supposed perpetrator of th horrible murder recently committed in a railway carriage on the Brighton line. The murderer who was arrested at Stepney, has acknowledged his identity with that of the man wanted by the police, but denies that he is guilty of the crime. July 10 The Eight Hon. Mr Baxter will probably succeed Mr Grant Duff as Under Secretary of State for the colonies. (Per s.s, Albion at Auckland.) London, July 5. Mr Parnell has, on behalf of himself and the Irish party, sent a telegraphic despatch to Washington expressing horror at the attempt made on the life of President Gaifield, and hoping the patient’s life will be spared. Government have announced their intention to abandon for the present session the Oaths Bill, which was introduced to bridge over Mr, Bradlaugh’s difficulty.