LATE CABLE NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2604, 26 July 1881, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

By the Eotomahana, which arrived at the Bluff yesterday, from Melbourne, we are placed in possession of the following cable news from Australian papers: London, July 18.

A very excited feeling prevails throughout Arabia, and the authority of the Porte is openly defied. In Mecca the insurgents, are m possession, and have defeated the troops sent against them. 250 Turkish soldiers were captured and massacred iu cold blood. Lord Mayor McArthur gave a grand banquet at the Guildhall, at which the Prince of Wales. Kalawara (King of the Sandwich Islands, who is now on a European tour), and other distinguished personages were present. In the speeches delivered the high importance of the colonies to the Empire was recognise;!, and eulogies were passed on the energy and progress displayed by the Canadian Dominions and Australia, Special reference was made to the successful result of the Intercolonial Exhibitions held at Sydney and Melbourne. The military system of England has been the subject of discussion in the German Press, which comments _ very favorably on the discipline, efficiency, and material aptitude displayed by the volunteers as exhibited at the recent review held at Brighton. In addition to the Grand Review of Volunteers to be held next month before the Queen at Windsor, arrangements are being made for holding a review of of Scotch regiments in Scotland. Intelligence has been received of a horrible massacre perpetrated by Kurds in Asia Minor. A predatory tribe captured 120 women, who, refusing to work, were imprisoned in a barn. The building was then set fire to, and the inmates miserably perished. Emigration to the newly opened territories in Canada, and the United Stales continues to be enormous. Mr Fletcher, of Adelaide, wbo Went to England some months ago in an unofficial capacity to try and float a company to construct a line of railway through Central Australia to Port Darwin upon the land grunts system, has succeeded in interesting a number q£ leading capitalists in the scheme,_ which they regard with favor. He will probably come out by the next mail with authority to submit proposals of a syndicate to the South Australian Government.