LATE CABLE NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2846, 9 May 1882, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

[By Telegeaph.] (Per s.s. Arawata at the Bluff.) [“Argus" Specials.] London, April 25. The trial of eight persons who are charged with having by their negligence in failing to enforce proper precautions, contributed to the catastrophe at the Ring Theatre, has commenced at Vienna. The defendants include Nowak], an ox-burgomaster, Janner, Director of Uio theatre, and three of his officials, and Landsterncr, Chief Commissary of Police, who was on duty at tho theatre on tho night of (ho fire, a fireman of the Vienna Biro Brigade, and an official of the Municipal Board of Works. Tho trial will probably last a long time. Tho fund lately started by tho Lord Mayor of London with a view of obtaining moans to assist persons desirous of emigrating to tho colonics

has collapsed, only £IOO having been subscribed.

General Skobeloff, the hero of Plevna, is suffering from an attack of inflammation of the lungs. The condition of the Jewish residents in South Russia is described as pitiable in the extreme. At a committee of the various relief committees, held in Berlin, arrangemects have been concluded to facilitate the wholesale emigration of Russian Jews to the United States.

It is reported that Pope XIII is recovering from his illness. Eighty thousand cases have been submitted to the Irish Land Court for the decision of the Commissioners ; 10,000 cases have been decided, but there are 1400 appeals. The Orient and Pacific Steam Navigation Companies have declared dividends of 5 per cent per annum.

The firm of Messrs Armitage Bros., merchants and steam sawmill proprietors of Colombo, has failed for £250,000. A Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Irish Land Act have decided to recommend that the State should lend tenants who are desirous of purchasing their holdings the whole money required, arranging for its repayment at a rate not exceed the rents paid at present.

Novigrad, a German colony in South Russia, has been over-run and plundered by the Russian peasantry. Sir H. Bulwer, Governor of Natal, has ordered the Zulus who assembled at Pietermaritzburg and demanded the release of their late King Cetcwayo, to disperse. Famine and civil war are imminent in Zululand. A terrible storm was raging along the English coast on Saturday and Sunday, occasioning a number of fatalities. Several vessels was wrecked and a great amount of injury to property was caused. A number of infernal machines have been posted to Vanderbilt the American millionaire and shipowner, and to Cyrus Field, the celebrated electrician, at their residences, New York. One of the machines exploded in the course of transit, but fortunately caused no injury. Further wedding festivities, to celebrate the marriage of Prince Leopold and Princess Helena of Waldeck, have been stopped in consequence of the death of the Crown Princess of Wurtemburg, who died in child-birth. [“ Age ” Special.] ’ London, April 25. A fire has occurred in the State of Wisconsin which has caused much damage. Sixty houses were completely destroyed, and the loss is estimated at $200,000. The British Government has decided to make an imposing demonstration of friendship ■ towards Russia on the occasion of the coronation of the Czar in August next. The Channel Fleet is to be sent to the Baltic in celebration of the ceremony. Ireland still continues in a most unsatisfactory state. Outrages are of frequent occurrence, and affrays with the police are very general throughout the country. Another murder has occurred. A farmer residing in County Longford was shot by some miscreants, who have not yet been discovered. Owing to the large amount of distress which has lately existed among the working classes of Germany, great dissatisfaction is manifesting itself among them. A number of workmen in Berlin have struck for higher wages, and the movement is spreading. Sir John Holkcr, who was AttorneyGeneral in the Beacousfield Administration, and was appointed in January to succeed the late Lord Justice Lush as a member of the Court of Appeal, has been taken seriously ill, and is now lying at his residence in a precarious condition. Miss Reynolds, who was recently imprisoned in Cork gaol for inciting ‘a tennant of the Earl of Bantry not to pay his rent, has boon sentenced to six months imprisonment for further acts of intimidation. James Rico, the joint author with Walter Besant of a number of popular novels, is dead. A French topographical party of 40 persons has been massacred at Oran, a seaport town in Algiers. The survivors of the American exploring yacht Jeannette, despatched by Bennett of New York on an exploring trip to the Arctic seas, have arrived at St Petersburg from the Siberian coast. Those rescued comprise the men whose escape has already been notified but nothing lias yet been heard of Lieutenant Do Long, who was in command, and the other superior officers.

The Indians on the borders of the United States and Mexico have been making themselves very troublesome lately. They have made several raids into Mexico, where they committed great outrages upon the inhabitants. The cyclone which pasted over the United States a few days ago caused an immense amount of damage. It has been ascertained that another town named Monticello was completely wrecked by the violence of the wind. The indignation felt in the United States at the continued imprisonment of the Irish “ suspects ”is growing, and numerous meetings have been held for the purpose of urging upon President Arthur the necessity of making representations to the British Government. The release of Dillon, the member for Tipperary, is especially demanded, on the ground of his continued ill-health. The Orient steamer Potosi arrived at Plymouth from Australia on the 22nd inst. On the vessel being unloaded it was discovered that a box of gold, containing 1500 sovereigns, had been stolen from the strong room. At present there is no clue to the perpetrator of the theft. A serious strike has occurred amongst the colliers employed at the Dux Colleries in the province of Bohemia. The electric railway connecting Berlin and the suburbs has been opened for traffic. It is expected to be a great success.

England has been visited by a most disastrous gale, which has caused an immense amount of damage. Trees have been uprooted and houses blown down in many places. Earl Cowper, who has resigned tho position of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, will leave Dublin immediately. He is expected to arrive in London on Friday.