LATEST CABLE NEWS.
[Reuter's Special to Star."]
LONDON, June 13.
Owing to increased disorder in Ireland, large reinforcements are being sent especially to augment the forces in the southern districts.
News has been received from Chili that a thousand Chinese have been massacred by the negro inhabitants in Santa Rosa.
News has been received from Liverpool of a dastardly attempt to destroy the Town Hall in that city. An explosion occurred in the building, and caused some destruction in its neighborhood, but the evident attempt to blow up the hall was unsuccessful. It is supposed that dynamite was the explosive material used. The police have already arrested two armed American-Irishmen on suspicion of being concerned in the outrage.
Telegrams have been received from Quebec, Canada, announcing that a most destructive fire has occurred, in that city. The conflagration raged for several hours with great severity, but was finally extinguished. It is estimated that fully one thousand houses have been completely destroyed. It is not yet known whether any loss of life has occurred.
Telegiams are to hand from New York reporting that at an interview with O'Donovan Rosa he denied that the Fenians were guilty of complicity in the recent attempt to blow up the Liverpool Town Hall, but it is stated he was aware in December last that explosives were placed in tbe hold of H.M.S. Doterel, which was destroyed by an explosion in the Straits of Magellan on the 26th April.
Lord Kimherley, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has consented to receive a deputation of loyalist Boers from the Tronsvaal.
PARIS, June 12. The Grand Prix race was won by Vauxhall; Tristan, second ; Albion, third.
M. Rostan, French Consul-General at Tunis, has been invested with supreme control of the Tunisian foreign relations, in accordance with the treaty between France and the Bey.
Twelve Italian explorei's have been massacred by natives in the interior of Egypt.
The Hon. Sackville West, British' Minister at Madrid, succeeds Sir Edward Thornton as Minister at Washington. Other diplomatic changes are announced.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 122, 15 June 1881, Page 2
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