LATEST CABLE NEWS.
[Reuter's Special to Star.]
LONDON, May 30.
" At the wool sale on Saturday, "8,900 bales were offered. The tone of the auction was firm.
Edward Trickett and Kelly, his trainer, have started for New York. . ' . News is to hand from Ireland ,that serious riots have occurred at Mitchelstown, in County Cork. Twelve thousand peasants assembled there to oppose the service of writs for the ejectment of some tenants, and upon the police arriving, oa the scene, fighting of a severe character took place. After much bloodshed on both sides the rioters were dispersed, and ihs evictions of tenants were finally completed. The Irish Land League is daily increasing its agitation throughout the country, and is showing signs that it will .oppose any attempt to prohibit its meetings.
PARIS, May 30.
M. Gambetta made a speech on Saturday, in the course of which he counselled a pacific policy, and said that order and peace were a necessity for the well-being of France, and should be rigidly maintained.
CALCUTTA, May 30.
Telegrams are to hand from Candahar, stating that fighting has taken place at G-irishk between bodies of the followers of Ameer Abdul Rahman' and Ayoub Khan. The latter is reported to be still at Herat. J
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 118, 1 June 1881, Page 2
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