CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 17 June 1881, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

« NEUTER'S CABLEGRAMS. [from our own correspondent.] Paris, June 13. Intelligence has been received from ' Algeria that engngoment has taken place i between the French troops, and a body of Algerian insurgents. The latter were totally defeated with a loss of 50 killed. London, June 14. In the House of Commons last night, in the course of the debate on the Irish Land Bill, Gladstone made a speech in which he remonstrated against the act.on of the Opposition towards the Bill, and hinted that the Government was prepared, it necessary, to demand urgency iv order to ensure its speedy passage through committee; "Melbourne, June 15. The Government ha*e decided to abac* don the Bill. Sir Bryan O'Loughlin moved that another Conference of both Houses should be luld, The debate was Onally adjourned, though against the wishes of the Government, [SPECUETO SPJI^TDNEY NEWS.j , AWming discoveries continue to be made of Nihilists plots to murder the Russian sovereign, and considerable anxiety exists for the safety of the Czar, in consequence of numerous preparations being made to ensure his destruction. One ot the latest discoveries made by the police is the existence of a dynamite mine underneath the railway station at Gotschina about 100 miles from St. Petersburg!*, the battery was connected by wire with the telegraph office, and this has led to the suspicion that the teles graph clerks are implicated in the plot. All the clerks have therefore been arrested. The police also discovered dynamite in r eraal machine beneath the Czu's seat in church. 1 The construction of the Panama Canal is being proceeded with speedily as possible, and Mr Lesseps expec's that it will be completed, and opened for traffic in about four years time. Enormous stream of emigration to the fJuited States from Euopean coun» tries, is attracting universal attention. During the month of May, the number of emigrants who landed at New York was 77,000. Another eruption of Vesuvius has taken place. Sydney, June 8. Archbishop Steins, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, is seriously ill. Todd has written a letter wherein he expresses belief that the comet now. risible, is identical with the comet of 1861.