LATE CABLE NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2656, 24 September 1881, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Telegraph.] (Per s.s Albion via Auckland.) London, Sept. 13. The Farmers’ Alliance has demanded that Government shall introduce a Bill to amend the land laws of England and Scotland. The Greek inhabitants of Larissa, the Capital of the province of Thessaly, which has been ceeded by Turkey to Greece, are publicly rejoicing over the event of the cession. The steamship Columbia foundered in Lake Michigan; 15 persons were drowned. At the Recent election meetings in the Transvaal the Boers displayed a more pacific spirit towards Britain. The Boer chief Masupha has submitted to the British. Sept. 14. Mr Gavan Duffy has abandoned his intention of entering Parliament. Sir Samuel Wilson, the well-known Victorian squatter, has become the tenant of Hughenden Manor, the seat of the late Earl Beaconsfield,

Heavy but indecisive fighting has taken place between French troops and Arabs at'Zogohovan, Tunis.^ The cotton spinners of Liverpool are carrying out their threat to break np a ring of cotton brokers, and have stopped the mills for a week. The Great Yorkshire Autumn Handicap resulted as fellows :—The Duke of Beauford’s Petronel, by Musket — Gythea, 1 Mr Jardine’s Teviotdale, by Tynedale—Performer, 2 ; Mr Forster's Syracus, by Onslow—Catania, 3. Baron Bramwell, one of the Lords Justices of appeal, has resigned in consequence of his advancing years. A sculling contest for a prize of £l5O, offered by Mr Chinnery to senior scullers, same off on the Thames to-day. The The course was from the Aqueduct to Mortlake. The race was won by Boyd, Largan being second, and Hawdon third. Time—4rain. 24sec. Great interest was evinced in the race. September 15. A collision occurred between two trains on the Cork railway. A collision also occurred on the Scarborough line. The cotton strikers of Now Orleans are creating riots, and Consuls have demanded military interference to protect the shipping interests of the countries they respectively represent. The team of cricketers who are shortly to visit Australia played eighteen of Holbeck yesterday, and beat them by 65 runs.

The Khedive has decreed the tota 1 abolition of slavery in Egypt,