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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1014, 28 March 1883, Page 2

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f REUTER—COPYRIGHT. J (Received March 24, 2 p.m.) LONDON, March 22. Consols 102£. The market rate of discount has declined to 2§, and is now 4 below bank rate. The total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England is £18,600,000, a reduction of £3,000,000 during the week. Ihe proportion of the reserve to liabilities is 4 ? per cent. ' New Zealand- securities are as follows New Zealand 5 per cent. (10-40 loan), an advance of £1 percent: New Zealand (1889) loan is at 106, an advance of £2; inscribed stock l is at 102, an advance of ,10s. Colonial breadstnffs remain at last quotations. Adelaide flour, 34s 6d. Adelaide wheat, 50s. New Zealand wheat, 45s - all ex store; Australian tallowremains at 40s 6d for beef, and 43s 6d for muttop.

(Received 'March 26, 12'.5‘5 a.m.) . - - March 24. - Great alarm is being felt in the neighbourhood of Chatham by- the belief that the Fenians have projected an attack, by-means of dynamite,..upon the dockyard and arsenal, and great vigilance is being shown by the militafy : authorities to guard against attack. : • The, death . is: announced :of the Hon. Arthur MeAllste wC.M.Gv, late AgentGeneral in London.'forQu.ee.n.slan.d/ The Right Hqh'. Anthbny - Mnndella, iVice-.PresuTcnt of. the; Council ion .catjonji.is , (Received March 27, 11.30 a.m.) ; ; ■ March 26, In conscquence of fears entertained of Fenian two; . thousand! men from various infantry- regiments have been told off as guards for different public buildings in London. A strong detachment of Coldstream Guards from Chelsea Barracks are now protecting the House of Parliament and Buckingham Palace."//< ,5/ Intelligence is to ; Wfld tfeaßa series of avalanches, have-occurred at Mount Atf&a Ait’tn^nja3 ; Cif A oum hereof-villages have been completely destroyed, and hundreds of people have been killed. (sPECTAt* TO-TRESS ASSOCIATION.) ; LONDON, March 21. a The Charity Organisation Society intend to request Sir Charles Dilke, the President of the Local Government Board, • lo ; >advaiice emigrants money from races on the security of land grants. The: French Government have issued orders to their gunboats at Tamatave to felockado that portv " Mr Parnell, in a recent speech, stated that Hie condition of Ireland is now desperate, and every species of violence is possible.. - ; 1

March 22. The, frozen lambs, per Chimborazo, realised 9d per lb. Mr W; N M Sf Aubyn, MP.for Helston; has ; received an anonymous letter, waV.hipg him that ,lhe t Invincibles intend to blow .up . the- House ;of Commons with dynamite after the Easter recess. , rTh&rtEmperor. ott-Austria has announced en tion anvea rly .visit to the King of Italy. ‘•-A cine has been obtained,totheperpeImtors’ of the attempt to blow up the ‘Local,Government offices at ; Whitehall, .r At the last wool sales, 165,000 baleswere taken for export, of which 7000 |w.ere for, America. . Scoured merinos .show ah advance from to Id ; greasy •merinoSi Hii equal, decline, compared'with close of December auctions. Superfine wools tare Sinferior in hohditiodho' those jirevionsly offered, and in consequence the demand is dull. Lambs and washed crossbreds are higher. March 28. The Right Hon. John Bright, in his Rectorial address to the Glasgow University, remarked that the. Australian colonies were increasing ‘in population and wealth with such l astonishing rapidity that in all ' probability /a desire to secede 1 from the Empire might- grow •up,-amongst them. „It would, he thought, require great wisdom and moderation on the part of the Imperial Government to preserve' the connection.

Mr Stephen Gladstone- implies that his father will shortly retire, and’ the Daily Nhws urges that he should receive a peerage, also retaining the leadership. March 24,

Six members of an Irish Society known as the Patriotic Brothers have been convicted of agrarian offences. The record of*the trial shows that' the Land League authorities requested the and several American Fenians are implicated Inlthe disclosures made. Vast eruptions of Mount Etna are - *oos. cted by scientific men. I (Deceived March 26, 12.55 p.m.) : r ,r. V:’WASHINGTON, March 23. - It is reported that the Hon'. L. S. Sackville s West, British Minister, has drawn, the attention of the United States Government to the nature of the language employed by American Fenians, who urge the ,nse of dynamite in order to obtain redress :j of Iheir : alleged grievances, and:has.informed the American Ministry that the use of such language by American* subjects will, if unchecked, tend to impair the relations between the United* States and Great Britain. A report is current here that the person alleged to be the leader of the Dublin inner circle of assassins, and known as “No 1,” has escaped to Mexico, and is beyond pursuit.