LATE CABLE NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2781, 21 February 1882, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

(Per Steamers from Australia.)

London, dates to Feb. 14

The death is announced of M. Jacques Offenbach, the famous French musician and composer, at the age of 63. Sir Michael Costa, another well known musician and composer, is reported to be in an unsatisfactory state of health.

A woman named Fnrnieux has been arrested in Birmingham for having obtained £20,000 by means of fraud and forgery. She personated Lord Arthur Pelham Clinton.

A provisonal Government has been established in part of Herzegovina. Several towns on the frontier have been captured and fortified by the insurgents. The insurgents in Bosnia are displaying great activity, and collisions with ; the Austrian troops are of frequent occurrence. The Austrian Government has despatched large reinforcements in order, to crush the insurrection, but military operations are much hampered by the severity of the weather. The suffering of troops from severe cold are declared to be of a most painful description. In the House of Commons notice has been given of many amendments on the proposal for the adoption of cloture. The tone of the debate on the Address in Reply to the Queen’s speech in the House of Commons, indicated an undoubted improvement in the oondi tion of Ireland. The House manifested a bitter fetl.« 0 towards the Parnellite party, rho.. /med to be cowed. Concessions have been obtained from the Persian Government by a French Company for the purpose of constructing a railway from Teheran, the capital, situated seventy miles south of the Caspian to Eesht, a seaport on the Caspian, in the Persian province of Ghilan a distance of about 130 miles.