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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3974, 23 September 1881, Page 2

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(Pbb Albion, at Auckland.)

London, September 13. The Farmers' Alliance has demanded that Government shall introduce a bill to amend the land laws of England au<L Scotland. The Greek inhabitants of Lurissa, the capital of the Province of Thessaly, which has been ceded by Turkey to Greece, are publicly rejoicing over the event of the cession.'

The steamship Columbia foundered on Lake Michigan, and fifteen 'persons were drpwned.. . >,">• " ' At the recent election meetings in the Transvaal, the Boers displayed a more pacific spirit towards Britain. The Zulu chief Massupha has submitted to the British. , * London, September 14. Sir Gavan Duffy has abandoned his intention of entering Parliament Sir Samuel Wilson, a weir known Victorian squatter, becomes the tenant of Hughenden Manor, the seat of the late Earl Beaconsfieldl ' -

.Heavy and indecisive fighting haa taken place between the French troops and the Arabs at Zagh'oyan, bear Tunis/ The cotton spinners of Lirerpool-are carrying out their threat to break up the ring of cotton brokers, and hare stopped the mills for a week. ' '

The Great' Yorkshire Autumn Handicap resulted in; the Duke of Beaufort's Petronel,. hy JV£uskefc 4am. Crj^hea,.;i; Jardine's Teviotdale,' by Tyaedale dam Performer, 2 : Forester's Syracuse, by On Blow dam Catenta, 3. . Lord' Bramwell, one of the Lords Justices of Appeal' has resigned in consequence of advancing years. The sculling contest for a prize of £150 offered by the Chinnery to the seflior scullers came off on the Thames to<day. The course was from the aqueduct to the Mortlake, and the race was won by Bbyd, Largan second, and Hawdou third.. Time: 24mini. 24secs. Great interest was taken in the contest. (

LpmfroN, September 15. A ooliision has taken place between two trains on the Cork tfailvay, and:wother collision occurred on the Scarborough line.

The potton strikers in New Orleans are creating riots and the Consuls demanded military interference to protect the

shipping interest of the countries they* respectirely represented. A team of cricketers who will shortly risit Australia played eighteen of Holbeck yesterday, aud beat them by sixty-fire runs, i

The Shed ire has decreed the total abolition of slavery in Egypt.