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Ashburton Guardian, Volume III, Issue 633, 11 May 1882, Page 2

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[pkr reuter’s agency.] Money and the Markets. London, May 10. Consols are unchanged at New Zealand Five per Cent. 10.40 Loan has declined to 106 ; and Five per Cent. 1889 Loan to 103, ex divq Four-and-a-Plalf per Cent. 1879-1904 Loan is unchanged at The markets for colonial produce remain at yesterday’s quotations. Not the Cabby. The Dublin cabman, who was yesterday arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the assassination of Lord Cavendish and Mr Burke, has been released. His name is Mocre, and it has been ascertained that he has recently arrived from America. It is stated, however, that several further arrests have been made. £IO,OOO Reward. A reward of Lxo,ooo has been offered for the discovery of the murderers. The police are sanguine of success. Satisfactory. The comments of the Press indicate that the appointment of Mr G. O. Trevelyan as Chief Secretary (or Ireland has met with general approval both in England and Ireland. The Under-Secretaryship. It is announced that Mr G. C. B. Hamilton, Accountant-General to the Admiralty, will succeed the late Mr Burke as permanent Under-Secretary for Ireland. The late Lord Cavendish. The funeral of the late Lord Fred, Cavendish will take place to-morrow at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, the seat of the Duke of Devon. The ceremony will be attended by a large number of distinguished personages, including all the members of the Ministry and many members of both Houses of Parliament. Aquatic. Sculling matches have been’arranged between Boyd and Laycock, to take place on Tees, on 3rd July, and between Largan and Pearce, to take place on the Thames, on 17th June next. The Homeward Mails. The homeward mails via Suez and Brindisi, which left Melbourne on March 30, were delivered here to-day. Nice State of Affairs. Cairo, May 10. The Khedive has commuted the sentence of exile recently passed upon the Circassian officers for conspiracy to assassinate the Arab Pasha. His Highness has taken the step in spite of the opposition of his Ministers, who, it is believed, are seeking to depose him. The situation is critical, and it is reported that the foreign Consuls resident here have summoned the ironclads of their countries, now in the Mediterranean, to Alexandria, in view of possible complications.