CABLEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1035, 11 February 1882, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

[From oru own Co.miE-roxDENTs]. London, Feb. G. A letter containing explosive material, and »(L1 ressj'.l to Mr Burster, Chief Secretary foi irelxn I, las been discorere* Ihe p dice ob tamed possession and destroyed the package. February 8. In the House of Commons List night, Mr Gia Intone gave notice uf motion to amend procedure uf I*4 liameiit, sons t<i provide t at the obitu’e. sha'l be v.ilable by by a han* iiiaj irity of the House, provi 1.-d two hundred iiL'inbers support, or less than I ) opp »se the motion fur its being pronounced. The motion by Mr Grav furan inquiry into t e circuimieatices attending the arrest and numKotiment uf t e Irish members of the Hmm? of Commons last night, was rej.*.*trd. The House «»f L >rds adopte I the a I Iress in reply to the Queen's speech. A mo'ion for a similar address Las been under discussion in the House of Comiuuiis. Ti.e debate stands adjourned. T ie Queen will proceed to Wentone in Italy in March next. Her Majesty’s me lied advisers have ordered that sue should take complete rest and change. Telegrams to hand report f' at a revolt Iris broken out at. Herat against the ru e of Abd d H-t iiian, This inlell'genee, however, requires coidirmal iun. In the House <>f C mmoiis to-day, Mr ' Ha l-loiie w:<« q ies'i me 1 as tu w’ at aetion, if any. rhe Government proposed to take with regard to t e persecuti »n of Jews in h’ussia. In reply the Brender dep'ored the outrages which had been committed against, the Jews, but stated that, the question was an internal and not an international one. T e Government won d, however, ho added, intercede with Russian authorities when a fitting occasion occurred.

The motion of Mr Gladstone for the adoption of the clutui'a will be opposed by Sir Stafford Northcete as the leader af the Conservative party. February 9. Shares to the number of 19,000 out of a total 47,000 in Keast and McCarthy’s Brewery Company, of Dunedin, have bean applied fur here. Melbourni, Feb. 7. In reply to a deputation which waited upon him to-day, Sir Bryan O’Loghlan promieed to introduce a bill next »essioa"to provide for the Hogging «.f - larrikins.” The Bank uf Victoria paya a ditidaad far the past half-year of per eeut. Feb. 8. G. Leacy has been found guilty ef embezzling funds of t ie Metropolitan Building Society, and sentenced to two years’ imprisuinnent. There are now seven smallpox patients from the Miz.-ipore. All sufferer* are progressing favorably. Applications are now invited here for 40,2UU shares in Feast and McCarthy’s Brewery Company, Dunedin. Sydney, Feb. 8. All attempts to Coat the Fiona, tho A.S.N. Company’s ciiuiter. d steamer, which recently wriit ashore un >eul Kock Point, have proved unsuccrssfiii. Heavy seas are now breaking over her, and she is expected shortly to become a total wreck. February 10th. The Oiient steamship Garonne wus received into pratique las: night, and her passengers will uc released from quarantine to-uiusrow. The steamship Fiona is now breaking up on the Beai Kock.