LATE CABLE NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2810, 27 March 1882, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

' - ( i [By Telegraph.] (Ber s.s. RdtomahanU at: the Bluff.) [“ArguA”Special.] London, March 17. ■ The racing boat which Edward Trickett, the N.S.W. oarsman, brought with him from Toronto, and which was built upon the lines of Hunhm’s boat, has been smashed in- a collision on tho Thames. . ,

Howard, Sfnith and Sons of Melbourne, are building a fifth steamer to be employed in the Queensland coasting trade. -

Crimes of violence continue to be of frequent occurrence in Four members of the “ Moonlight” band have been captured and charged with complicity in three fresh cases of shooting which have taken jflace. -*-~The-latest news from 'lreland gives particulars ,of the murder of a man named Andrews. The Dublin police followed tracks of blood, which, led, to., ‘the house of a man named Kinsella, who has been arrested and charged with the commission of the crime. Adady has also been shot at Sligo. ■., The American; trade unionists have held a meeting at which they denounced the Hon. James Russell Lovell, the. American Minister in London/for having refused .to .intercede with the British Government, for the relief of the American subjects who are imprisoned as “ suspects ” for their con-, nection with the Irish Land League. The meeting also passed a resolution demanding the recall, of Mr Lowell to the United States.' . , ,/ ...... The Government 'rule for a new trial in the libel case Scott ,v. Simpson has been discharged. |

. The child who was kidnapped from ; Berne,r Switzerland, and 'for: whose ransom 50,000 francs’ were demanded, has been found in a lonely house in one of the suburbs. Her abductors Lave been arrested. ■ .

'■ Hanlan', the Canadian /bat’sman,! haS gone to Newcastle. Ho wlirrpay.Boyd bn the 1 Tyne, for £IOOO aside, on April 3rd. '• .