LATE CABLE NEWS.
(Per B.a. Eingarooma, via the Bluff.)
[Ahgus Special.]
LONDON, August 9.
A Fenian Convention, attended by numeroub delegates, is sitting at Chicago. Tho policy of the Convention, and tho objects it seeks to obtain, are declared to be ac follow : — Independence of Australia; resistance of payment of taxation for tho purposes of the Government of India ; annexation of Canada by the United States ; formation of a republic at the Cape of Good Hope ; and federation of the British leles. The expelled faction of delegates, who were in favour of employing dynamite in carrying out the objects of the Convention, met and passed a series of resolutions, which tho Convention refused to adopt. Subsequently, the dynamite faction rejoined tho Convention, but the harmony of the proceedings was Bgain disturbed by the exhibition ot a sample dynamite machine. There is also a dispute amongst the delegates concerning tbe funds of tho Convention.
August 11. The death is announced of Dr John Hill Burton, historian and biographer, aged 77.
August 12.
The Tekke Turcomans who gave their submission to General Skobeloff in February last, now disown the Bussian rule.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4160, 20 August 1881, Page 3
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