LATE CABLE NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2640, 6 September 1881, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[Special to Melbourne “Argus.”] Melbourne, Aug. 24. Sir C. Gavan Duffy has publicly declared his opinion that the Irish Land Act, which has just received the Royal assent, contains the germs of immeasurable good for Ireland. The “Paul Mall Gazette,” commenting upon this address, in an article headed “ Timely Words,” expresses the opinion that Sir C. Duffy has spoken well and opportunely, and eulogises his remarks. The article concludes by advising every householder throughout the Kingdom to receive his eloquent appeal. O'Donovan Ilossa, the editor of the “ United Irishman,” a Fenian journal published in New York, has issued a proclamation, which intimates that an organisation, exists to destroy hundreds of English ships by means of dynamite. The Cobden Club have expunged from their list of members the name of James Kedpath, the special correspondent in Ireland for several New York papers, who has recently made himself notorious by his inflammatory harangues on the Irish land difficulty. Heavy rains, which threaten to seriously injure the prospects of a good harvest, still continue. Prayers for fine weather have been ordered and offered in all churches, Government, in deference to pressure brought to bear on them by Parliament have agreed to grant £IOOO to Edmund Galley, as compensation for his long detention in a penal settlement in Western Australia for a crime of which he was innocent. Aug. 30, A conference of members of the National Land League of Great Pritain has been sitting at Newcastle. Addresses in favor of land reform in England were delivered by Mr Joseph Cowen, the Radical member for Newcastle, and Mr Justin McCarthy, the Home Rule member for Longford. A disgraceful outrage has been perpetrated at Rathcoole, a village about nine miles from Dublin. Numbers of tenants who had assembled to celebrate the wedding of Colonel Thurst, their landlord, were fired at by a band of miscreants while the rejoicings were progressing. Many were wounded.