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Marlborough Express, Volume XVI, Issue 136, 13 June 1881, Page 2

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SENTENCE OF RIOTERS TO IMPRISONMENT, DASTARDLY ATTEMPS TO BLOW UP A TOWN HALL. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT QUEBEC. [rector's telegrams.] London, June 10. Fifty rioters, arrested daring the recent disturbances at Cork, were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. The police and military m Ireland are suppressing meetings of the Land League. At five different places to-day meetings were prohibited, and the people dispersed. Owing to the increasing disorder m Ireland, large reinforctmcnU of troops are being cent

there, especially to augment the forces m the southern districts. . News has been received from Chili that 1,000 Chinese have been massacred by the negro inhabitants of Santa Bosa. Telegrams are to hand from New York, reporting that at an interview held with O'Donovan Rossa, he denied that the Fenians were guilty of complicity m the attempt to b" w up the Liverpool Town Hall, lut stated he was aware that explosives were placed m the hold of H.M.S Dotterel, which was destroyed by an explosion m the Straits of Magellan, on the 2Cth of April. Liverpool, June 10, A dastardly attempt to destroy the Town Hall was made last night. An explosion occurred m the building, and caused some destruction m the neighborhood but the evident attempt to blow up the hall was unsuccessful. It is supposed dynamite was used, and is believed to have been laid by Fenians. The police have arrested two arme'l American Irishmen, on suspicion. Quebec, June 9, Yesterday a most destructive fire occurred m this city. The fire broke out ia a thickly populated part, and spread with great rapidity to several blocks of houses. All efforts to ' allay the progress, for some time were without avail. The conflagation raged several hours with great severity, but was finally extinguished. It is estimated fully a thousand houses were completely destroyed. It is yet unknown whether loss of life occurred.