CABLE NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 44, 23 February 1886, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

n Kuoraxo mlxobaph.— ooptmohs. MASS MEETING IN HYDE PAEK. SOCIALIST SPEECHES. BLOODSHED PREDICTED UNLESS REFORM GRANTED. IHE PRINCE OF WALES. Greece yielding. Irictkb's tilxqbahs.] (Received February 22, 7.30 p.m.) London, 21st February. A mass meeting of unemployed was held in Hyde Park to-day under the auspices of the Socialist organisation. There was au enormous attendance, fully 40,000 persons being present. Speeches were made condemning the proposal to establish relief works for the unemployed. Burns, a leading Socialist, against whom proceedings havo been taken in connection with the late disturbances, in the course of his address, predicted that bloodshed would ensue unless the social reforms asked for were granted. There was a largo force of Eolico on the ground and in the neighbourood, but their services were not called into requisition, as tho assemblage dispersed in an orderly manner. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has left town for Cannes, in the South of France. The New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M.S. Ruapehu arrived to-day from Wellington, with her meat cargo iv good condition . (Received February 22, 10.30 p.m.) London, 22nd February. The Greek Government is reported to be showing some inclination to yield to the demands of the Powors that she should demobilise her forces. Rangoon, 22nd February. His Excellency Lord Dufferin has arrived here from Mandalay. RUSSIAN ADVANCE IN AFGHANIS. TAN. THE INDIAN HARVEST. [special to mrrrxD pbrss association. J (Received February 23, 1.15 a.m.) London, 22nd February. It is reported that General Alikhanoff, a Russian officer, with 1000 men, is inarching on Maimana, a town 200 miles to the northeast of Herat, which was captured by the Afghans in 1874. The prospeots of the Indian harvest aro of a favourable nature.