LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 41, 1 September 1880, Page 2

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

[BEUTEB'S SPECIAL TO STAB.]

London, August 30.

Harvest operations in England are now nearly completed. The total yield will amount to 11,500,000 quarters.

Lord Gilford, V.C., has been appointed Colonial Secretary of Western Australia.

A further debate took place in the House of Commons last week on the existing state of affairs in Ireland. Mr. Pamell made a vehement speech, in the course of which he said a native Parliament in Ireland was the only remedy to meet the grievances of the Irish people. Mr. W. E. Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, said that the action of the House of Lords, in rejecting the Irish Tenants Compensation Bill, was much to be regretted, and would possibly prove a great calamity. He added that if coercion should prove necessary in Ireland, he would introduce a bill to effect the same, and one which would relieve the Government from the consequences of the action of an unjust land law.

The Australian cricketers were entertained last week by the Mayor of Leeds at a public banquet. Murdoch, in replying to the toast of the evening, look occasion to allude to the Sydney cricket disturbance last year, and defended the Sydney cricketers, who, he said, were quite blameless in the matter.

The Bight Honorable W. E. Gladstone has now quite recovered from his recent illness, and leaves Gravesend on a cruise off the coasts of Ireland and Scotland, in Messrs. Donald Currie and Co.'s steamer Grantley Castle.

A collision has taken place in the Solent between H.M.S. Minatour and a barque. Considerable damage has been done to the latter.

An appalling calamity has occurred near the town of Chatellerault, on the Vienne, about twenty miles N.E. from Poictiers. A landslip occurred, burying a large number of persons, and injuring others. It has been ascertainted that the number of deaths caused is 20. The event has created a profound impression throughout France.

It is now positively announced that the Baroness Burdett-Coutts is betrothed io Mr. Asmead-Bartlett, one of the members of the House of Commons. Her Majesty Queen Victoria is strongly opposed to the marriage, and is endeavoring to dissuade the Baroness from taking the step. Should the Baroness marry, she will forfeit half her income.

Her Majesty the Queen refused the Savoy Chapel for the celebration of the marriage of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts. Heavy rains have fallen in the northwestern districts of Austria, and portions of the country are flooded. The town of Ischl, near Salsburg, where the Emperors of Austria and Germany have recently held a conference, has been partly inundated.

Later news received shows that the Jeddah, with 1000 Mahommedan pilgrims for Mecca, reported as having foundered in the Strait of Babel Mandab, with all hands, was towed into port at Cape Guardafui, in a sinking stite. All the pilgrims were saved. The Scotch express train fell over a high embankment at Berwick, while going at full speed, but only the driver and two servants were killed.

A burglary has taken place on the premises of Eldon, the jeweller. £20,000 worth of property, including jewellery, plate, and the Great Seal presented to George IV., were stolen. The river Nile is rising at an alarming rate, and fears of a great inundation are entertained.

Calcutta, August 30.

Intelligence has been received here today that Khelat has been evacuated, and that the British' troops, which formed the garrison there, have joined in relieving the force under Colonel Roberts, who has continued his march towards Candahar.

News has also bee» veeeived ih&b kJae Pathan tribes, who recently attacked the British garrison at Kachmadan, near the Bolan Pass, but were repulsed and severely punished, have now been disarmed by the force which was sent against them.

Later.

It now transpires that the Pathan tribes, which have been disarmed by the British forces, consisted of inhabitants of the country to the north-west of Kurrache, in Scinde, which place they were threatening, and not Kachmadan.