CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 10 June 1881, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

HEUTEU'S CABLEGRAMS. [from our own correspondent.] * • London, June 7. At a meeting under the auspices of the Ladies* Land League, held at Tulla to* day, Miss . Parpcll,. in speech which she iUriiie on the occasion, counselled people lo a !opt measures to completely ostracise l ! <e poii.e \n Ireland.

News has been received from Ireland that a large Dumber of people assembled to-day at Tramore, County TVaterford, to attend meeting called together by the League agitation. The authorities having learned that a meeting was to be veld had previously despatched a large force to the neighbourhood, and as scon as the people had assembled, the police arrived on the scene and dispersed the meeting. Some resistance was offered by the mob, but no serious disturbance occurred. The Government have within the past few days had the position of affairs in Ireland under consideration. Several meetings of the Cabinet have been held to discuss the matter, and it has trans* pired that it has been decided that the authorities in Ireland should maintain a very firm altitude, and adopt the strongest poseib'e measures to suppress the increasing disorder. • June 8. Accounts to hand to-day from Ireland continue to give further evidences of tbe alarming state of the country. Numerous further arrests of prominent a^tators and suspected persons have been made during the past few days under the Coers cion Act, active steps being taken by the authorities to stop all meetings called together by the League. A large number of people assembled yesterday at Mullingar, County West Meath, but tb* police were despatched to the., scene and tbe meeting was prohibited, and the crowd dispersed. At Smut, County Mayo, yesterday, a serious riot occurred between the police and peasantry, who assembled in large numbers to prevent an ejectment— severe fighting took place, and several rioters were arrested. The mob again attacked the police, and rescued prisoners after a further conflict. News is to hand from Cork that roads in disturbed districts have been destroyed, and telegraph lines have been cut in several places. A large detachment of troopers has been despatched to travers the country and prevent further outrages. Paris, June 6. '" Telegrams have been received from Algeria reporting that a party of 26 engineers and workmen, engaged in the construction of a telegraph line have been massacred by Native Arabs. The request of neutrality of inter«» oceanic canal in course of construction across the Isthmus of Panama is row being considered by the Powers, but up to the present time no definite information as to the result of the negotiations has transpired.