CABLE NEWS.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1090, 24 September 1883, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

HOME AND FOREIGN.

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jl : LONDON, Sept. 21. Mr Gladstone arrived at Gravesend yesterday from his yachting etnise in the Baltic. Professor Nordcnskjold, Swedish explores of the Arctic regions, has just returned from an expedition to Greenland. He reports that the interior of that country consists of an ice desert of enormous extent, the existence of which Was previously unknown. , The Bank of England announces the following New Zealand loans to be converted into 4 per cent, inscribed stock : 41 per'cent. 5.30 1879-1904 loan, £*6,000,000; 5 per cent. 5.30 1881J906 loan, £1,250,000; and the 5 per cent, floating loans, amounting to £1,882,000, making a total of £9.082.000 to be converted. VIENNA, Sept 21. The latest reports from Croatia state that the province is still in a disturbed state Serious disturbances have token place* at Krentz, a town near Agram. The troops were called out to quell the outbreak and they fired upon the rioters, ten of whom were killed and a number seriously ininred. BERLIN, Sept 81.

A review of a large body of Imperial troops was held to-day at Homburg, near Frankfort upon Maine, before the Emperor William. The spectacle, which was a grand one, was witnessed by King Alfonso of Spain, who is on a visit to the Emperor, and the English princes ($/«}, now in Germany.

AUSTRALIAN.

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SYDNEY, Sept 21

Severe shocks of earthquake have again been experienced in the south of this colony. The shocks were most severely felt at Bungendore and BraedTtood, and lasted from ten to twenty seconds.