CABLEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1063, 20 April 1882, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

[Fbom ora own Courespoxdbsts], London, April 17. Both Houses of Parliament met today for the despatch of business after the Easter recess. In the House of Commons the Bight Hon. Mr Gladstone in replying to a question stated that the liberation of Cetewayo, and his restoration to his former position as King of the ■Zulu tribes were within the bounds of possibility if enquiries which were being made proved that his reinstatement was desirable and would be beneficial to Zululand. Edward Trickett has returned from Hampshire and has again gone into training at Putney. Paris, April 18. A robbery of postal packages containing valuables and securities, estimated to be north one million francs, ■was committed last evening from the Central Post Office in the city. No clue as to the perpetrators of the theft has yet been obtained. Washington, April 18. A new measure recently introduced in the House of .Representatives providing for the total exclusion of Chinese from the United States for a period of 10 years, was finally agreed t> by the House last evening. A Bill Las been introduced in the Senate to authorise the Government to repay to Great Britain the unexpended balance ■of Geneva award in connection with the Alabama claims.