CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 202, 2 August 1883, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

INTENSE EXCITEMENT IN IRELAND. OUR AGENT«GENERAL. THE SUEZ oSaL QUESTION. THE GREaT EARTHQUAKE. AWFUL MORTALITY. THE MADAGASCAR CAMPAIGN; FINANCIAL DEPRESSION. THE COLONIAL INSTITUTE. (SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION) London,= Jaly 31. James Carey, the informer m the Phoenix Park murders, was travelling under' tbe assumed name of Power, and was shot as the Bteamer Melrose was nearing Port Elizabeth, and expired shortly after receiving the wound . 6'Donneli, tne murderer, was delivered over to the Natal Police. On the news of Carey's death reaching Ireland, there was tbe wildest excitement at Cork and Dublin; ""■'", . bir Julius Yogel has secured the rbht to l«y cables between Western Australia;, Oeylon, and Sineapore, and m ends to reduce the charges for trans* . mission of messages. In the House of Commons, on Mr Norwood's amendment that the House retains its freedom of judgment regard* ing the canals, Sir Stafford Northcote deprecated the question being made a party ene by Mr Gladstone. The Painellites abstained from voting. It is now stated that by the earthquake at Ischia Islind 4000 were killed. In the village of Lacco only five escaped death. Five hundred French infantry have been ordered to Madacascar. At a meeting of the shareholders of the Union Bank; tbe- 'Chairman expressed a Tear that the Banks m the colonies would scarcely escape losses during the current year. Eleven hundred pounds have been subscribed towards the Colonial Institute Building Fund.