CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 14 March 1881, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

I ♦ R REUTER'S CABLEGRAMS. | [PBOM OUB OWN COBRESPONDINT.] i London, March 10. The barque Chandiere, from Napier, which arrived off the coast on Monday, came into collision yesterday with the Euphrates 88 she was coming op the Channel. Bhe suffered considerable damage and shortly afterwards! west on shore on Goodwin Sands, but has since been tagged off and brought safely into dock. The Euphrates was slightly injured. March 10. In the House of Commons to-night a question was pat to the Premier regard* ing, the armistice declared between tbe Boers and the British troops in the Transvaal. Mr Gladstone said that although it had only been tgreed to suspend bos-* tilitifes for one week, it had been under* stood between Sir George Colley and the Boer Commander that a longer armistice could be proclaimed, should the state of tbe negotiations for peace render it necessary. Several further arrests ot suspected persons have been made in Ireland under the Coercion Act. Information was received to*day from Ireland that an important seizure of military weapons, consisting of one hundred pikes, had been made by the police at Kinturk, County Cork, Mr Parnell has issued v manifesto. He exhorts the Irish voters in England to resist the legislative measures of the Liberals to the utmost, and to oppose the return of further members of that party to Parliament. Caps Tows, March 10. News to»day from Basuto land states that negotiations for peace, which were proceeding between the Colonial Com* mander and the Basutos having failed, the armistice has now ceased and hostilities between the two forces have been resumed.