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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1024, 20 April 1883, Page 3

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f REUTER—COPYRIGHT. J (Received April 19, 1.3 a.m.) LONDON, April 17. Three . Portuguese men-of-war have been ordered to St Paul De Loondo, the capital of the Portuguese colony of Ongola, on the West African Coast. (Received April 18, 9.40 p.m.) Consols, 102fi New Zealand securities remain at yesterday’s quotations. Breadstuff's market is quiet. Adelaide wheat, ex store, 50s; New Zealand wheat, 44s to 48s; Adelaide flour, ex store, 345. Australian tallow, firm at 44s for beef and 46s for mutton. Arrived to-day at Plymouth, Orient Co.’s steamship Liguria from Melbourne, March 7th. April 18. Intelligence of a disquieting , nature has been received from the West African Coast, and It is expected that a conflict will ensue between Stanley’s exploring expedition arid % -French party under De Brazza, in the Congo conntry. (Received April li), 12.30 p.m.) ' MADRAS, Apriil ;8. intelligence of a remarkable, catastrope is to hand from Secunderabad, a town in Hyderabad. A large number of natives.werc worshipping on rafts in an extensive tank in the city, when one of the structures suddenly upset. All the natives who were on it were precipitated into the water, and sixty-two of them were drowned before assistance could reach them. (Received April 19, 2 p.m.) LONDON, April 18 (evening). Daniel Cnrley, the second of the prisoners charged with the Phoenix Park murders, has been found guilty, and sentenced to death. A box containing explosives has been found outside Salisbury Cathedral, and the intended outrage to triat edifice has thus been averted. The, discovery caused some alarm in the city. NEW YORE, April 18. At a meeting of Irish delegates, which has been ’held at Philadelphia, it “was decided to adhere >to 'the intention of holding the Convention in that city on the 25ib inst. Parnell, who presided, advised that the Convention should be postponed until autumn. The leading members expressed themselves as opposed to the nse of dynamite for obtaining redress for Irish grievances.