CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 106, 12 April 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

THE FENIAN " SCARR." MORE EXPLOSLONS ' THREATENED. THE NEJvV JUDGES. PROPOSED RECOGNITION OF COLONIAL MEDICAL TITLES. TRYING WEATHER IN ENGLAND SIR HERCULES ROBINBON. EXPEOT^DPOBTPONEM E S JT-OF THE CZ All's CORONATION. DEATH OF L'JttD AVONMORE. MORE DYNAMITE DIBCLoaOREB. ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP GOVERNMENT OFFICES IN CANADA. RETRENCHMENT m ENGLAND. W.JLSELEY TO ATTEND CZAR'S CORONATION. SIR LYON PL AYF AIR. FROZ EN M EAT. EXTENSION OF THE POSTAL ORDER SYSTEM TO THE COLONIES; THE IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. INDIAN. AFFAIRS. SHIPPING AJND MARKETS, (by electbic thlegbaph. — coprbioht.) (special to united press association.) London, April 10. Sir Edward Fry, one of the Judges of the Chancery Division/ and not Sir William Field, Judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, as previously reported, succeeds the Right Hon. Sir William Baliol, Brett as one of the Lords Justice of Appeal. A man is known to have started from Binning iam for Windsor carrying with him a quantity of dynamite, and managed to evade the police on the jnurney. The new Medical Bill introduced by the Government has been read a second time m the House of Lords. It recognises colonial medical tides and degrees. Reciprocity is expected, The ParneUites fear that the condition of affairs m Ireland will induce the Government to propose to make the Crimes Prevention Act permanent. The Lancet states that "the recent severe March winds have directly caused" the deaths of 10,000 people inrfingland and Wales. The police believe that tho. Fenians intended to cause several simultaneous explosions of dynamite m different parts of London. The Right Hon. Dr. Lyon Playfair, late Chairman of C tnmittee s in the Hov e of Commons, has been knighted. Mr Edward M'Naghten, Q.C., M.P. for County Antrim, succeeds Sir Edward Fry as one of the Judges of tho Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice. The Standard says that Sir Hercules Rob nson will not return to the Cape. Eight men have been arrested m Clare charged with murder and conspiracy. The threats made by the Nihilists, and the acti vity which that party is displaying m Russia, will probably cause the Czir to postpone his proposed coronation. The Porte has consented to a junction being formed between the Austrian and Turkish Railways at Pristina. It is probable that the Marquis of i Lome will remain for another yVar iv Canada. The Hon. Evelyn Ashley, Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Colonies, replying to a question m the House of Commons, refused to give publicity to the report of the Commission on Colonial Defences. The death is announced of the Rt. Hon. William Charles Yelver ton, Viscount A von more. The American Fenians stale that thera are 200 secret factories of ex* plosives. ' Norman, the man recently arrested ' m the Strand m" possession of dynamite, is expected to turn approver. His brother and a man named Gallagher are charged with the attempt to blow , up a bridge and the gasometer at Glas- j ROW. An attempt has been made at Ottawa, m Canada, to blow up one of the Go* vernment Departments. It is stated that Mr Gladstone will accept the motion brought forward by Mr Peter Rylands, M.P. for Burnley, j condemning the growth of the national ( expenditure, and proposing the appointment of a Select Committee .to review the Estimates. General Lord Wolseley and Admiral the Earl of Clanwillitim will accompany H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh to Moscow, to attend the Czar's -coronaation. 1 The cargoea of frozen meat per ship I Dunedin from Port Chalmers, and s.s. Cuzco from Sydney, have arrived m splendid condition, but lower prices are ruling. j Lord Selbourne has dismissed the action Clarke v. Bradlaufi[h, on the ground that the right to sue for p'enaU ties is vested m the Crown. Sir Charles Dilke, President of the Board of Trade, replying to a deputation, stated that the Government was willing to assist the emigration of pauper children to Canada. Mr Postmaster- General Fawcett intends to extend the system of postal orders to the colonies, .■ ■-■ ; In the House of Lords last night, ;the Earl of Lytton, who has anived m London, criticised the Indian policy of the Government, averring that the proposed transfer of political and judicial | power to the natives would endanger J

th»i safety af British interests m India, Lord Kimberley, the Secretary for India, replied that the scope ot the present policy had baen much exaggerated, and ridiculed the Hea of the dauber exnressed by Lord. Lytton. The trial of the prisoner Joseph Brady for the murder of Lord P. Cavendish and Mr Barke has b >en commenced at the High Court of Judicature, Dublin, before Judge O'Brien. The pisoneris defended by Dr. Thomas Webb, Q.C. Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association. — Arrived —'Ships Otaki, from Wellington (December 15) ; Pleionp, from Wellington (De r cenaber 20) ; and Dunedin, from Port Ghilmera (January 14). . . Consols htve advanced to 102f , New Zealand securities are unchanged. Best ttaotcu pig iron, No. 1, f.o.b. m Clyde, 49s per ton .