LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume I, Issue 74, 24 December 1880, Page 2

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

[Eeuter's Special to Stab.]

London, December 22.

A serious railway collision has occurred to-day at Leeds. Over fifty persons were killed and injured. The Fiitieth Begiment has been ordered for service in Natal against the Boers.

County of Limerick, Ireland, has been proclaimed a disturbed district. A panic has occurred at Chicago owing to numerous grain, failures. The price of wheat is falling. Further telegrams to hand from the Cape regarding the rebellion in the Transvaal, announce that the telegraph lines between Heidelberg and Praetoria were cut before the Boers proceeded to the former pl&DB. News t>s fcbe onbhreak was, however, soon received at Praetoria, and the Governor of the Transvaal, Sir George Colley, at once gave orders for all available troops in the district to be despatched without delay to Heidlberg, where the Boers are, as already announced, in complete occupation. Over £10,000 has been subscribed for the defence of Parnell and the other leaguers to be tried in Dublin.

The English Government has thanked Admiral Seymour for the manner in which he conducted the movements of the combined &eeb when engaged in the demonstration against Turkey for delivering up Dulcigno to Montenegro. The deaths are announced of the Duchess of Westminster and Frank Buckland, the celebrated writer on piscatorial subjects.

Tbe Viceroy of Ireland has prohibited meetings being held in Queen's county, and has despatched additional troops there to preserve the peace.

The Dutch Government are making preparations to send out an Arctic expedition.

The Telepho»e Company tar© lost hhe case against the Post Office, on the question of the legality of erecting wires. St. Petersburg, December 22.

Four hundred students have been arrested at Moscow on suspicion of being concerned hi a Nihilist movement. Athen9, December 22.

Greece has declined to negotiate with Turkey, and England has proposed that the difficulties between the two countries should be settled by arbitration. Aden, Yesterday.

The steamer Protos with, a cargo of fresh meat has arrived her& from Melbourne en route for London. Everything so far is satisfactory, the meat being in a sound condition, and machinery working well.