LATE CABLE NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2665, 5 October 1881, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

(For Te Anatt via Bluff.) [“ Age’’ and “ Argus" Specials.] [Br Telegraph.] London, Sept. 21. The King of Spain in opening the Cortes, the Spanish Parliament, laid special emphasis on the negotiations recently entered into with Great B< itain and other countries for the establishment of Commercial Treaties, and ex pressed his desire that these should be carried to a satisfactory issue.

Serious disturbances have occurred in several parts of Kussia, and the military have been ca led out to maintain order. Numerous districts have been proclaimed in a state of seige, and are subject only to military Gove rumen t.

An audacious outrage has been perpetrated at Kingston, a suburb of London. Two criminals who were discovered by a policeman in the act of committing a burglary resisted him, and one drawing a revolver shot the constable dead.

He then with his companion made his escape. A terrible, gale has been experienced in the Baltic which has caused great damage among shipping. Intelligence already received reports no less than thirty ships were lost and a large number of sailors were drowned.

Though Ireland has beeen quieter since the passing of the Irish Land Bill, outrages are of occasional occurrence. Two Justices of the Peace, residents of Athlone, who have made themselves prominent in carrying out evictions, have received threatening letters, warning them that their lives will be taken unless they desist. Disturbances have occurred in the Punjaub, the most northerly . province of India. Raids have been made by some of the unsettled mountain tribes, and it has been found necessary to despatch punitive expeditions against them. A violent storm has raged on the north-east coast of England, and has done much damage. The fine breakwater at the mouth of the river Tyne,on which river the great shipping trade of Newcastle is situated, was extensively injured by the force of the waves. Another shock of earthquake has been txperienced in Abruzzo, in Italy. The own of Chieta, the capital of the province of the same name, situated on a bill near Pescara, 40 miles east of Aqnila, has been much damaged. This town was nearly destroyed by an earthquake in 1702. A most destructive tornado has taken place in Illinois, United States. The storm raged with fearful violence, and its course was marked by the destruction of all that lay in its path. Several persons were killed, and the damage to property was extensive. The town of Jeremil, a seaport of the Island of Hayti, on its south-west peninsula, 120 miles west of Port an prince, has been almost entirely destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at 500,000d015. In the province of Gallicia, Austria, a Jewish tabernacle was diseovered to be on fire during the progress of divine service. When the alarm was given a terrible panic ensued among the congregation, and in the struggle to leave the burning building four persons were killed.

Cholera has made its appearance among Muaselman pilgrims flocking to the sacred city of Mecca, Arabia. The disease is causing fearful ravages. Sept. 23.

General Arthur, after taking the formal oath of office, delivered an address, in the course of which he pledged himself to follow the policy which the late General Garfield nad announced in his message to Congress in March last. President Arthur has invited all the members of the Cabinet elected by the late President to continue in office. _ The French Government, recognising the increasing gravity of the situation in Tunis, where the native revolt is rapidly spreading, have given orders for the despatch oflarge reinforcements of their forces. Twenty-six thousand troops, including a large proportion of cavalry, have embarked at Toulon for service in North Africa. Sept. 27. Several of the newspapers published in St. Louis, one of the principal cities of the United States, give currency to a report that the American Fenian organisation has recruited a filibustering force of 300 men, with the avowed intention of making a raid upon Freemantle, the chief port of Western Australia, and plundering the settlement. Another object of the expedition, which is said to have already sailed from San Francisco, is to release the prisoners confined in the Imperial convict establishment at Freomantle. The St. Louis papers are dubious as to the correctness of the rumors.

The instructions which were recently given for the withdrawal of several regiments of Imperial troops from the Transvaal have been countermanded, in consequence of the non ratification of the convention and the hostility which the newly-elected Volkarsad continues to exhibit towards the British.