CABLE NEWS.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1013, 26 March 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

HOME AND FOREIGN. f REUTER—COPYRIGHT. J (Received March 22, 1.45 p.m.) LONDON, March 21, A somewhat powerful movement against the employment of Irishmen is being organised in Liverpool, and is expected to extend to other towns. The death is announced to-daj of the Right Hon. Sir George Jewel, Master of Rolls, aged 59. (Received March 22, 10 p.m.) The Fehruary-March series of colonial wool auctions closed to-day. The total quantity disposed of was 270,000 bales and 23,000 have been held over for next auctions. Cross-breds have closed at about'a penny higher, wool at a half-penny to a peraty lower the prices ruling at the end of the NovernberDecember sales. News is to hand from South America that hostilities have been resumed between Chili and Bolivia, and that a large force of Chilians are now marching on La Paz, a large town in the latter country. ;■ (Received March 24, 1 a.m.) March 22. Her Majesty the Queen is confined to her room at Windsor Castle, owing to the effects of a recent fall down the staircase. 1 The injury was originally only trivial, but Her Majesty’s knee has since become badly swollen, and complete rest is necessary. (Received - March 22, 12.55 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, March 20. Intelligence is to hand from Moscow that the Governor of that city has re-ceived-a communication warning him that Kremlin,-the citadel in which the Emperor is to be crowned, will be blown up unless the charter is granted before the cornonation takes place. CAIRO, March 20. It is announced that Earl Dofferin -will return to Constantinople early in May, by which time, he will have completed the objects of his special mission to France. PARIS, March 21. M. De Brazza has organised a large party, and has started on another expedition to Congo, in Central Africa. NAPLES, March 20.

. Telegrams have been received from Messina announcing that Mount Etna is now in a very violent state of eruption, and (hat, as a result, severe shocks of earthquake, have been experienced over the Island of Sicily.

' (SPECIAL TO PRESS , ASSOCIATION.) " LONDON,.March 10. A serious Arab, revolt has broken ont at Yemen, a province lying on the coast of the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. . LONDON, March 20. Rear-Admiral John'Crawford Wilson has been appointed; ofthe Channel Sqadron. Her Majesty the Queen nix. . .vf€h a slight accident, hayitigTslipped on the stairs at Windsor Castle. She is a little hurt. : Mr Charles Parker Butt, Q.C., M.P., for Southampton, has been appointed to succeed- the Bight Hon. Sir R. J. Philliraore as Judge of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Court. The Lord Mayor of London has opened a fund for the relief of the distressed in the Western Islands. Owing to the inclemency of the weather, canal, traffic in England is rendered very uncertain,-and the mails are frequently .delayed. The Right Hon, G. J. Goschen, M.P. for Ripon, has been appointed Chairman of the Grand Committee of House of Commons on Trade. ■ The Right .Hon. .George Sclater- . Booth, M;P. for North Hants, has been appointed* Chairman of the Grand Committee on Law. -The Press generally are sceptical as to the accuracy of Lady Florence Dixie’s story, about the attack made on her . Sir Alexander Galt has resigned his position of High Commissioner for Canada. - - - , ; The Nihilists threaten to blow the Kremlin bp xvitli ■ dynamite on the Occasion of the.Czar’s coronation. An American man-of-war has been ordered to Madagascar, LONDON, March 22. Arrived—Langstone, from Napier, December 3 ; Wairoa, from Lyttelton, December 7. SAN FRANCISCO, March 22. Arrived, yesterday—Pacific Mail steamship City of Sydney, from Auckland. • . "CAPETOWN, March 22. Intelligence to hand from Tembulandf in Transkie, states that the Boers have refused the demand ;of the British authorities that they should forthwith IquW the tcrritory. The Boers are j uhtfilnftbod to be arming and massing, aiiii a’ri* outbreak of hostilities is feared. AUSTRALIAN. [AEUTEH —COPYRIGHT.J ’ , (Received March 22, 1.45 p.m.j^ Royal Blind has been scratched fq3 the Cujr. The latest belting Is £

against Mistaken, 7 to 1 against Sweet William, 8 to 1 against Stockwell. It is understood that Ministers are hesitating to accept Mr Copeland’s resignation. (Received March 22, 10 p.m.) Additional Cup scratchings : Gamin, Anglesey, Commotion, Hesperian, Pell Mell, Stockdale, Saunterer, Valetta. Latest betting-—5 to 1 against Mistaken. ADELAIDE, March 22. Wheat, quiet, 5s fid. Town Flour, £l2 12s fid: country brands, £ll 10s to £ll 15s. Nothing is doing in freights.