TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 329, 14 December 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, Dec. 9. News has been received of another serious murderous outrage in Ireland. A bailiff, while executing a decree for the eviction of a tenant from a farm at Cookstown, in the county Tyrone, was set upon by the tenant and a number of his sympathisers, and murdered by them before he could escape. At the wool sales to-day 4140 bales were offered. There was more enquiry, but the demand was principally speculative . Ten thousand bales have been withdrawn from sale since the opening of the auction. Dec. 10. The Irish League has now instituted Courts for the settlement of disputes be.-. tween landlords' and tenants on laud questions. A terrible colliery explosion occurred to-day at Prygreig (sic), which has resulted in the death of over ninetyminers who were in the pits at the time of the explosion.

News is to hand from south America that the Chilians in large force have, landed at Arica, on the Peruvian coast, and are rapidly advancing on Lima, the capital. Thp total quantity of wheefc afloat for the United Kingdom is 235,000 quarters.

' - }iiV IS At the wool sale were offered, making a"totil/( bales catalogued since thetopi tone of the sate was firm. ■■■ The wool auction - was elm 1190 bales being offered, am a total of 10,510 bales catalog the opening. The toue;Jol showed, better demand tions. home buyers, but the number' buyers was small.. There.& competition... aqi qualities. Crossbred? Id to than \just sales.

The Geographical Society is p a scheme for another Arctic' tion; • ' . ' Cafe News is to hand hostilities inJßasutolaud districts, that after gagements between the and tribes of Pon'dos, owing to a succession utterly routed. Calcutta,

The' latest telegfam reports that all feverish smptoau now left the Marqis of mains in a very weak conditio^