LATE CABLE NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2618, 11 August 1881, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[Special to the Meljjoukxe “ Age.” (Per s.s. Hero at the Bluff.) London, July 26. The new docks recently completed at Leith, a seaport of Edinburgh, were opened to day by the Duke of Edinburgh. The ceremony was a most brilliant affair, and was attended b} r thousands of spectators. The Queen had been invited to perform the ceremony, but she was unable to accept the invitation and deputed the duty to her son. The docks have been constructed on ground lately reclaimed from the sea at a cost of £375,000. Captain Boycott believes that the 'feeling against him has subsided sufficiently to enable him to resume operations. July 28. A terrible gale lias been blowing, and has caused groat damage in East London. Several vessels have been wrecked, and forty people have been drowned. July 30. Fenians are continuing their machinations in Great Britain with unabated activity. The discovery has been made by the police of a quantity of dynamite concealed in a workshop in Glasgow, the object of which is believed to have been the destruction of the chief public buildings in that city. Agram, the capital of Croatia, which was recently almost entirely destroj'-ed by successive shocks of earthquake, has undergone another severe visitation of the same kind, which has caused great destruction to property, and produced quite a panic among the inhabitants. London, Aug. 1. It has been reported to the police authorities of London, and the British Government, that a number of Fenian skilled artizans have left America to conduct explosions in Europe. It is reported that the Viceroy of India, the Marquis of Ripon, is mediating between the Ameer and Ayonb Khan, and that he has advised the Ameer to accede to Ayoub’s western division of Afghanistan. Hartmann, who is now in America-, lias confessed to complicity in the Moscow railway outrage, in which the life of the late Czar was sought to be taken.

Prince Napoleon has issued a manifesto demanding a plebiscite. August 2.

Pond, the well-known entrepreneur and caterer, of the firm of Spiers and Pond, is dead. Wallace Rosa has challenged Hanlan to a sculling match for the championship. A Nihilist conspiracy to murder the y 4 .\r of Russia has been disclosed at Moscow, where the Sovereign was staying. In consequence of what lias transpired the Emperor has suddenly left (he city. Several arrests have been made. A National Free Trade League has been formed in London, to advance a system of reciprocity between this and other countries in regard to Customs charges. Very serious riots have taken place at Tipperary. Twenty-seven of the ringleaders were arrested. An anti-Jewish riot occurred at Barivalde, in Ihe Province of Brandenburg, Prussia, yesterday. An attack was made npon the synagogue, and much damage to the structure resulted.