LATE CABLE NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2739, 31 December 1881, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

(Per s.s. Wakatipu from Sydney.) [Special to Sydney Papers.] London, Deo. 19. The German Reichstag has re-elected its President and Vico President. A Bedouin murdered a soldier at Suez, and the affair led to a riot among the military in the course of which the Governor was subjected to outrage. The Rev. Father Robert Dunn has been appointed Bishop of Brisbane, and the Rev. Dr Cane has been appointed Bishop of Rockhampton. The British Government have agreed to make a present to the New South Wales Government of H.M.S. Wolverine, fully armed. Dec. 20. Prince Bismarck is recovering health. Eighteen Socialists have been arrested in Vienna.

Forty deaths were caused by the explosion at the Abram colliery, Wigan, Lancashire. M. Gambotta refuses to retract n atateir.cn! he made recently to the effect that the British Government bad re-

cognised the Treaty entered into between France and the Bey of Tunis, EarJ Granville is very much annoyed at the obstinacy of the French Premier. The Lord Mayor of London has communicated with the provincial Mayors, requesting their co-operation in a movement initiated for the defence of property in Ireland during the present period of lawlessness. A stormy scene occurred in the London Common Council in connection with this movement. The Council refused to subscribe to the fund started by the Lord Mayor. Six ladies have contribute £9OOO to the fund. Dec 21. The Atlantic steamer Bath City has been wrecked and ten people drowned. She was a vessel of 1724 tons, built in 1880. A gas explosion of a serious nature occurred in Vienna, causing several deaths and injuring others. The Customs authorities of New York discovered 1800 cases of rifles, which were shipped for Liverpool described as hardware. The Orient Co.’s new steamer Australia, built entirely of- steel, was launched to day. She is intended for the Anglo-Australian trade. Several female Laud Leaguers are making themselves very prominent, and are daring the authorities to arrest them. Their meeting places are duly closed and the police take no notice of the agitators unless they become conspicuous as vagrants, or otherwise break the peace in the streets. The Police. Courts then deal with them. The Montreal branch of the lirsh Land League threaten to publish the names of the Irish residents who refuse to contribute to the funds of the Irish National Convention in Chicago, Several Nihilists have been arrested in St. Petersburg, who were detected carrying dynamite enclosed in oranges. Dec. 22. The workmen who were engaged in constructing the St. Gothard tunnel in the Alps have been paid off. French troops are suffering considerably from cold and exposure in Algeria, and much sickness prevails. The Swiss House of Assembly hare under consideration a Bill granting succor and protection to the sufferers by the disastrous earthquakes which have been experienced throughout the cantons. Dec. 23. Since the catastrophe at the Hing Theatre, Vienna, the public have almost entirely forsaken the other theatres in the city. In order to restore confidence the lessees of the various theatres have formed a deputation to the Emperor, asking that experts be appointed to report on the means of egress from the buildings. Seventeen British sailors were arrested in New Orleans for causing a disturbance at a public meeting.