REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2059, 5 April 1883, Page 2

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

* By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. THE ACCIDENT TO THE QUEEN. COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL BILL. THE IMPERIAL REVENUE. BOILER EXPLOSION.—26 PERSONS KILLED, 39 INJURED. THE RECENT EXPLOSIONS IN LONDON. JOHN WALSH MIGRATING. PREDICTED EXPLOSIONS IN ENGLAND. ANNIHILATION OF TROOPS BY THE APACHE INDIANS. (Received April 4, 10 p.m.) London, April 3. Her Majesty the Queen has sufficiently recovered from the accident to her knee, occasioned by falling down the staircase at Windsor Castle on the 22nd nit., to take carriage exercise, but is quite incapable of walking, and can scarcely stand. The Government Bill for the establishment of a Court of Criminal Appeal hss been read a second time in the House of Commons. The Imperial revenue for the financial year, ended March 31, amounted to £89,000,000. (Received April 5,2 p.m.) Intelligence is to hand that 26 persons have been killed and 39 injured by a boiler explosion at the ironworks at Staiziner [1 Staines.] April 4. The men recently arrested at Liverpool in connection with the landing of explosives have been examined privately. It is believed they are implicated in the recent explosions in London. (Received April 5, 1 a.m.) Paris, April 2. John Walsh, who was arrested at the instance of the British Government at Havre, on the charge of complicity in the Phoenix Park murder, but subsequently released, has sailed for New York. New York, April 2. O’Donovan Rossa predicts that explosions of public buildings in England will soon be effected by Fenians, and of a more serious nature than any which have yet occurred. (Received April 5,2 p.m. Washington, April 3. A company of ti’oops despatched against the Apache Indians in New Mexico and Arizona has fallen into an ambuscade and been totally annihilated. [special to press association.] London, March 31. The Basutos have solicited to be placed under the direct rule of the Imperial Government, but they are willing to submit to the rule of the Cape Government if the other cannot be obtained.

The House of Commons has passed a resolution in favour of sixpenny telegrams.

The schooners now employed in cruising in connection with her Majesty’s ships on the Australian station are to be sold out of the service, and it is reported that H. M.S.’s Goshawk and Swinger will be commissioned to replace them. Both are gunboats of 430 tons, carrying four guns each. The Italian Press deny that the P. and O. Company have abandoned Brindisi as a port of call. The Company explain that their plans for the resumption of the Marseilles route are as yet incomplete. Considerable excitement prevails throughout Albania, owing to fears being euteitained of Austrian occupation.

The American Government refuses at present to interfere with the action of the Irish dynamite party in the States.

Lord Salisbury has declared that if the colonies and foreign states increase protective duties, England will have to re-discuss the whole question of free trade.

April 1. The P. and O. Company explain that the adoption of the Marseilles route will only apply to the China steamers. It is reported that the Orleans princes are disposing of their estates in France. General Thibaudin, French Minister of War, has suppressed the proposed cavalry manoeuvres, as he distrusts General Gallifit. LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. QUEENSLAND REVENUE. (Received April 4, 01 p.m.) Brisbane, March 30, The revenue returns for the past quarter show that the receipts amounted to £555,000, being an increase of £68,250 compared with last year. The Customs’ revenue during the quarter have increased by £31,000, and the income from railways by £32,000. The expenditure for the quarter amounts to £426,500, being an increase of £55,250, as compared with the corresponding quarter of last year. The revenue for the nine months ended 31st March amounts to £1,710,000, being an increase of £2200 as compared with last year.