CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 12 October 1881, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

REUTER'S CABLEGRAMS. . [FBO3I OTTB OWN CORRESPONDENT.] London, October 10 Parnell addressed a large meeting yesterday at Wexford, Ireland, when lie replied to strictures passed upon him by Gladstone at the Leeds banquet. In retort, Parnell characterised Gladstone as an unscrupulous and dishonest, and an unrivalled slanderer of Ireland. Tunis, October 10 Telegrams from Tunis announce that active hostilities continue in many parts of the country between 'if renen troops ana^£rWn*osTrrgeircß; No engagements of any importance have lately been fought, but incessant skirmishes have taken place at various points (Special to the Melbourne Argus.) London, October 5 A serious railway collision has occurred between two trains on the railway line near Rotterdam in the Nethealands. Forty persons were more or less injured. ! Several prisoners who had been ap» prehended under the Irish Coercion Act,'; a 0.4 incarcerated in Bridewell, Atholone, hsye been Released, {since their freedom, they have received an ovation at the hands of their friends, and members of the Land League A great disturbance has taken place at Mulliogar, a'market town of gom^e importance in the County "Westmeath, Leinster. Father Sheeby, a Catholic priest, who was arrestsd some time under the Coercion Act, and who was recently released^ from Kilmainham gaol, addressed an excited mob, and delivered an impassioned harangue, which so worked on^ the fetlings of the people that they proceeded forcibly j to oppose some evictious which were beiug carried out under the direction of the sheriffs. The military were called out, and after considerable difficulty the disturbance was suifyresßAd, Sixty rioters were arrested. Intense excitement has been caused in the United Stales by the anouuce* ment of the discovery of a plot to murier General Arthur, the new President at Washington. Two men were overheard plotting his murder, and information was immediately giveD to the police, and men have been arrested. A secret Society has been formed at St Petersburgh for the purpose of frustrating aims of the Nihilists, whose terrorism policy ia comidered to have seriously injured *h£ progress of the nation. The object aimed at is to des*. troy the Nihilist organisation, but the procredings of the society are kept care* fully concealed * Intelligence bas been received by the Admiralty of a mutiny on board the Rambler