CABLE NEWS. RENFORCEMENT THE CAPE MEETINGS AGAINST GOVERNMENT MEASURES.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 37, 15 February 1881, Page 2

CABLE NEWS. RENFORCEMENT TH E CAPE MEETINGS AGAINST GOVERNMENT MEASURES.

ARMISTICE AT BASUTOLAND. Ibxtjter's telegrams.] London, 14th February. In accordance with the announcement made on Saturday by the Secretary of State for War, in the House of Commons, two regiments of cavalry and 1000 infantry have been ordered to proceed to Natal to further reinforce Sir George Colley in the Transvaal. A meeting took place in Hyde Park to-day in opposition to the measnres proposed by the Government for the settlement of the agitation in Ireland. A considerable number of people were present. Several violent speeches were made, and copies of the Irish Coercion Bill were burned on the platform. The Ladies' League, which has recently been formed in Dublin, has for its object the furtherance of the agitation for a settlement of the question of the ownership of the land in Ireland Constantinople, 13th February. News to hand from the Island of Crete reports that the inhabitants are at present much disturbed over the possibility of the island being ceded to Greece in partial settlement of the Turco-Greek difficulty. Capetown, 13th February. Negotiations for a cessation of hostilities between the Cape forces and the Basutoa have recently been proceeding, and a week's armistice has now been proclaimed throughout Basutoland and the Transkei.