LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 251, 22 May 1882, Page 2

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

1 LONDON, May 18. The Irish judges have taken steps to protest against clauses of the Irish Repression Bill, which provides for the suppression of juries in Ireland. It has transpired that the ten men who were recently arrested on board the s.s. Egypt, at Liverpool, ou suspicion of being concerned in the assassination of Lord Cavendish and Mr. Burke, were only stowaways. May 19. In the House of Commons last night, the Irish Repression Bill was read for the second time by a majority of 45. In the course of the debate which took place, Mr. Gladstone stated that the provisions of the Bill had been long planned by the Government, and were not xnorely intended as an act of resentment for the murder of the Irish secretaries. May 20. Sir Julius Vogcl has flailed for Melbourne by the Orient Company's s.s. Australia. CAIRO, May 20. The English and Frouch squadrons have arrived oft Alexandria, and tho command of the united fleet has been assumed by tho English vice-Admiral, Sir Beauchamp Seymour, of H.M.S. Alexandra. Tho entrance to the Suez canal has been placed under the guard of the French gunboats attached to the squadron. CAPETOWN, May 18. The elections which have been held in Natal, with the object of testing tho public opinion with rogard to Lord Ivimberley's offer of autonomous government to that colony, have resulted in votes boing adverse to tho proposals.

CONSTANTINOPLE, May 18.

It is announced that tho Porte has sent a request to the English ami French Governments that the ironclads which have been despatched to Egypt may be recalled, as their prosence iv Egyptian waters is deemed to bo an cucroaohracnt upon the suzerainty of Sultan.

MELBOURNE, May 19. News has been received here that 'an outbreak of cholera has occurred at Sumatra, and Lord Kimborley reqests that the colonies will quarantine all vessels arriving from that country.