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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1018, 6 April 1883, Page 3

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fREUTER —COPYRIGHT.J ' f (SPECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, April 1. •The P. and 0. Company explain that the adoption of the Marseilles route will only apply to the China steamers. It is reported that the Orleans princes are disposing of their estates in France. General Thibaudin, the French Minister of War, has suppressed the proposed cavalry manoeuvres, as he distrusts General Galliffet. (Received April 4, 10 p.m.) LONDON, April 3. Her Majesty the Queen is sufficiently recovered (rom the accident to her knee, occasioned by falling down a staircase at Windsor Castle on the 22nd nit, to take carriage exercise, but is quite incapable of walking, and can scarcely stand. Tire Government Bill for the establishment of a Conn of Criminal Appeal has been read a second time in the House of Commons. (Received April 5, 3 p.m.) LONDON, April 2. Consols remain at 102$. New Zealand securities remain at last quotations, viz., New Zealand 5 per cent (1889) loan, 106. New Zealand 5 per cent (10.40) loan, New Zealand 4£ per cent (1879-1904) loan, 1021. * New Zealand 4 per cent inscribed stock, 102£. The market for Australian breadstuff's is dull:—Adelaide wheat, | ex warehouse, 50s; New Zealand wheat, , ex warehouse, 46s to 495, according to quality. Adelaide flour, ex warehouse, 84s. Australian tallow is firm at last quotations, viz.—Best beef, 42s ; best mutton, 44s fid. The total stock of tallow in London to-day is 8100 casks. April 3. In the House of Commons to-day, Lord E. Filzmaurice, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs stated, in reply to a question, that England was not in any way concerned in the disposal of the balance' of the Alabama indemnity, which remains in the hands of the United States Government afterpayment of all claims. Intelligence to hand states that twenty-six persons'have been killed and thirty-nine injured by a boiler explosion at the ironworks at Stazier (sic). April 4. ' In the House of Commons last night, Mr Gladstone assenting, a motion was adopted setting forth that no treaty should be concluded with Portugal unless the same guarantee that England should have commercial freedom on the Congo, and perfect freedom in her action towards civilising Central African tribes. The men recently arrested at Liverpool in connection with the landing of explosives have been exariiined privately. It is believed they are implicated in the recent explosions in London. News is to hand from Ashantee that the ’ King has abdicated, and that the country is now in a state of great confusion.

(Received April 4, 1 a.m.) PARIS, April 1, i John Walsh, who was arrested at the instance of the British Government at Havre, on a charge of complicity in the Phoenix Park mnrders but subsequently released, has sailed for New York. NEW YORK, 1 April 2. o’Donovan Rossa predicts that ex r plosions of public buildings in England will soon be effected by Fenians, and of a more serious nature than any which have yet occurred.. WASHINGTON, April s. A company of troops, despatched Mexico'and Arizona, has fallen into an ambuscade, and been totally annihilated.