CABLEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1028, 26 January 1882, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

[From our own Correspondents]. London, Jan. 21. The Union Bank of Australia declared a dividend of seven per cent, for the past half-year. January 23. Intelligence is to hand from Ireland that six hundred pounds weight of dynamite have been stolen from a factory in Limerick, where a quantity of explosive material was stored. .No clue as Io the perpetrators of the robbery has yet been obtained by the police. Tin* trial at Cork of fifteen members of a secret society of marauders who were recently arrested in Dublin, lias been concluded. All the prisoners were convicted, and have received heavy sentences of imprisonment. Ti’.e leader of the society, who turned informer, gave evidence showing the existence of a wide-spread Fenian organisation in Ireland. St. Petersburg, Jan. 20. The would-be assassins of General Tc’iervine, Assistant Minister of the Interior, on the 25th November last, have been found guilty. One has been sentenced to death, and the other to 20 years’ imprisonment. January 22. The Journal de St. Petersburg denounces, in an article to-day, the movement in London to raise subscriptions for the Russian Jews, and states the agitation is founded on the hatred of Englishmen for Russia. Vienna, Jan. 23. Intelligence has been received from Bosnia that the Insurgents arc being rapidly augmented, and now comprise a large body of men, armed with Snider rifles, In view of the strength of the rebels, the Austrian Gendarmes are retreating from their present position, pending the arrival of reinforcements. Cairo, January 23. The difficulty which has arisen between Cberif Pasha and the Assembly of Notables in consequence of the resolutions recently come to by the latter in regard to its power, is now improving, and there are signs that an early compromise is likely to be effected. Melbourne, Jan. 24. The lion. Peter Lalor, Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, is a passenger by the Albion for the Bluff. A hitch occurred in regard to the Garonne’s passengers, who have been liberated from quarantine, the agents of the latter demanding sustenance money for the period of their detention, but the Government declined to interfere. A Mauritius telegram dated the 4th inst. reports that 400 tons of sugar have been engaged for Lyttelton. January 25. The Garonne’s passengers, who have been released from quarantine, arrived at Melbourne last night. The difficulty which has arisen regarding payment of sustenance money during the period of quarantine is between the passengers and the Orient Company, who demand payment from the former. The Government have been referred to, but they decline to interfere in the dispute.