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[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ■» THE WAR PANIC AND BUSINESS MATTERS. ATTEMPTED ESCAPE OF AYOUB KHAN. THE INSURRECTION IN NORTHWEST AMERICA. DEATH OF THE LORD MAYOR OP LONDON. (Received April 11, 5 p.m.) London, April 10. The panic which' prevailed for some time on account of the threateningaspect of foreign affairs has now in a great measure subsided, and business matters have resumed their usual course. The San Francisco mails from Auckland, March 3rd, were delivered here to-day. April 11. Ihe New Zealand Shipping Company’s Royal Mail steamship Tongariro left Plymouth this afternoon for Port Chalmers, via Teneriffe and the Cape. (Received April 13, 0.40 a.m.) April 12. Intelligence is to hand to the effect that Ayoub Khan, the late Ameer of Afghanistan, attempted to escape from custody, and has been conveyed to the citadel at Teheran. Intelligence from North West America states that the insurrection fomented by the half-bred Riel, in Manitoba, ia growing in gravity, and that the Indian tribes surrounded several of the outlying stations and massacred a number of white settlers at Frog Lake. The death is announced of the Right Hon. Geo. Swan Nottage, Lord Mayor of London. Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriter’s Association : London, April 11. Arrived, the ship Pleiades, from Napier,
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Kumara Times, Issue 2671, 13 April 1885, Page 2
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