CABLEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1188, 30 October 1882, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

[reuter’s telegrams], BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-(COPYRIQHT.) ALEXANDRIA, Oct. 27th. Intelligence is to hand that two British officers, named Gill and Charrington, and Professor Palmer, who were sent in August last into tho interior to purchase camels, have been massacred by the Bedouins. Two of the bodies of the victims have been recovered, H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught has started on his return to England. I ( PARIS, Oct. 29. Owing to the recent statement of Mons. Deves, Minister of Justice, that tho Government possessed evidence of a widespread revolutionary organisation now permeating France, much alarm has been created throughout the country. At Lyons a panic has arisen through fears that the Socialists rising there is imminent, Great excitement prevails in the town, and troops to reinforce the garrison have been sent, All the public j buildings are now guarded by a strong do--1 tachment of troops, LONDON, Oct. 28. I The total quantity of wheat afloat for i Great Britain is 1,840,000 quarters. Best i sides Australian hides dull at l id not as ! telegraphed yestordeX, there are no changes I to report in the money market, or in Colo- ; nial produce. ; Tho debate on the Premier’s resolution for j reform of procedure is still proceeding in tho ' House of Commons, A number of amend- ; ments have been proposed by Conservative , members in the rules for the adoption of the I elotuvo, and various speakers have urged j some mitigation of the stringency of the proj posed rules, Sir Garnet Wulsely arrived in London to- . day, Hon, Gladstone, Duke of Cambridge Earl Granville and a distinguished company ' met him as he alighted from tho train, and as ' he drove away from the station ho received a ; great ovation from a large crowd which had , assembled, : Further heavy rain has fallen over EngI land, and fresh floods been caused. Thames Valley is now iundated, and serious destruc- ! tion of property has resulted. i Au amendment to the cloture proposals has been moved by Mr Gibson in the House ■ of Commons amending that two-thirds mai jority should be required to adopt the cloI ture. The amendment will test the feeling J of the House on the whole question, and the i division on Mr Gestou’s motion is fixed for ; Thursday next, I VIENNA, Oct. 28. : Very heavy storms of rain have been ex* i perienced in southeast Austria, and alarming i floods have resulted in Tyrol and Province of ; Corinthia.