LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume II, Issue 138, 10 August 1881, Page 2

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

[Reuter's Special to Stab.]

LONDON, August 7.

John Dillon, M.P., County Tipperary, who was arrested on the 2nd May last, under the Irish Protection Act, and who has been lodged in Kilmainham gaol since the date named, was to-day released from custody. It has transpired that the Hon. J. Russel Lowell, Americnn Minister in London, has received communications from Mr. Blame, United States Secretary of State, stating that everything that is possible is being done "by his Government to discover and prosecute the authors and shippers of the infernal machines sent to Liverpool last month per ship Malta. In the House of Lords the Irish Land Billjwas finally passed through committee, and further important mutilations • and amendments of its provisions had been made by their Lordships.

An important debate took place in the House of Commons upon the subject of native outrages in the South Pacific. In the course of the discussion Mr. G. O. Trevelyan, Secretary to the Admiralty, stated that the Government thought it would be unwise to transfer the powers now vested in Sir Arthur Gordon to the Commodore on the Australian station : that it had been decided that men-of-war should in future visit the islands more frequently, and that Captain Maxwell, of H.M.s. Emerald, should be appointed Deputy Commissioner, and be empowered to deport oppressive or dangerous British subjects residing in the islands.