LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVIX, Issue 3652, 9 February 1881, Page 2

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

<k . •CABLE MESSAGES. BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS. [PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] AMERICA. ON THE IRISH QUESTION 7 . London, January 27. Namerous meetings are being held throughout the United States for the pappose pf expressing 1 sympathy with the Irish Land League. The meetings aye attended for the most part by the Irish section- of the population. Not much importance is attached to the movement. ALTERATION" IN COERCION BILL. It has been decided to introduce a clause into the Irish Coercion Bill making 1 it retrospective ia operation. That will enable the Government to' arrest and imprison persons guilty of crimes prior to the passing of the Act. FENIAN OUTRAGE. During the past two days the police at Chelsea, and Windsor received secret and apparently trustworthy information that the Fenians were arranging plans for an outrage npou those places. The constabulary have been increased, and other precautionary measures are being 1 taken by the authorities. BOERS' ItEBELLJON. Tho leaders of the Boers have made overtures to several prominent Zulu chiefs to join them, but none as yet have shown symptoms of disaffection, and every precaution is being taken to prevent a rising iti Zalulaod. EARTHQUAKE AT AQRAM. A severe shock of earthquake has again been felt at Agram. IRISH AGRARIAN OUTRAGES CEASED London, February 5. News to hand from Ireland during the past few weeks shows that agrarian outrages have now almost entirely ceased. This is attributed mainly to the prompt measures which have been taken by tho Government for tho suppression of disorder. THREATENED AITACK ON SIERRA LEONE. Further news received from Sierra Leone confirms tho telegram to hand yesterday regarding the probability of an outbreak of war in that colony. It is now announced that the king of Ashantee demands that the refugee chief who has placed himself under British protection iv the colony, should be surrendered. Sir Samuel Rowe, Governor of Sierra Leone, has refused the demand, hence i the threatened attack on the colony by tho Ashantees. DEATH OF THOMAS CARLYLE. Tho death is announced to-day, after a lingering illness, of Thomas Curly lo, tho eminent author, aged 85. COERCION BILL DENOUNCED. London, February 7. Public meetings have been held in London and several of the provincial towofi, at which resolutions were passed denouncing the Irish Coercion Bill now before Parliament. IRISH TENANTS GIVING WAY. In addition to a complete cessation of outrages in Ireland, there are now signs that the Irish tenants are giving way to the landlords, and (.hey will resume tbe,payment of rent for their holdings. !' AMBASSADOR VISITING BERLIN. Berlin, February 7. The Right Hon. J. Goschen, English Ambassador to the Porte, is visiting this city, while en route to Constantinople. He has had an audience with the Emperor and Prince Bismarck.