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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 48, 2 December 1882, Page 2

[by electric tklegrapft. — copvbight.] reuter's telegrams. London, November 30. Two of the men charged with being concerned in the murder of the detective in Dublin, on the 27th instant, have been committed for trial. It is announced that Sir George Fergusson Bowen, Governor of Mauritius, has been appointed to the Governorship <-f Hong Kong, and that Sir John Pope Hennessy will take the vacant Governorship of »l auritius. It is transpired that instructions have bocH sent to Sir Henry Bulwer, Governor of hiatal, to reinstate Cetewayo as king of the Zulu tribes at the earliest opportunity. Berlin, Novem her 30. The Rhine is now higher than it has been for a century, and the principal towns alom; the banks are inundated. Great distress prevails in consequence. Cairo, November 30. A report is current here to day that the trial of Arabi and other rebels will be entirely dropped, and that the preparations which have been in progress for some time past are at a stand. Received December 2, 12.45 p.m.] London, November 30. Consols 101 i (sic. query ex div) ; bank rate discount remains at 5, and market rate at 3£ per cent. Tothl reserve in notes and bullion in Bank of England is eleven million, being half-a-million more than last week. Proportion of reserve to liabilities i.. 42 per cent. New Zealand securities' are without quotable change. Colonial bread stuffs are unchanged. Adelaide wheat, ex warehouse, 49s 6d ; Zealand, 41s to 475; Adelaide flour, ex wareh' use, 345.