CABLEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1206, 20 November 1882, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS], BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-(COPYRIGHT.) i — LONDON, Nov. 17. i A disastrous fire occurred to-day at Whiteley’s well-known shops, Westbourne ' Grove. The damage is estimated at £109,000. The trial of another of the prisoners concerned in the murder of the Joyce family at ! Maantrasna, County (ialway, in August last, ' was concluded to day. A verdict of guilty : was returned by the jury, and sentence of death was passed upon the prisoner. A report is current here to-day that the ; cargo of frozen mutton per steamship Marsala. which left Dunedin on the 22nd September last, was jettisoned near Java, owing to the refrigerating machinery having broken down. Nov. IS. | Sir Stafford Northcote started to-day on a health cruise to the south of Europe. He i is expected to be absent from England for two months. Her Majesty the Queen has reviewed all ’ the troops returned from Egypt at the Horse i Guards. The various regiments afterwards marched through Piccadilly and Whitehall, ■ receiving an ovation from an immense con--1 course of people assembled along the route. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navii gation Company has declared a dividend of ; 3A per cent, for the last half-year, together ' with a bonus of 2 per cent. Consols have declined and are now down i to 102. ' The total quantity of wheat afloat for i Great Britain is 2,120,000 quarters. j There are no changes to report in the Colonial 1 I produce markets. ‘ The market rate of discount has been ' raised by \to 3y. The bank rate remains at i 5 per cent. Consols, are unchanged, at 102. New Zealand Securities, Colonial breadi stuffs, and tallow, without quotable change, i It is officially announced to-day that Mr ! William Macarthur (Lord Mayor of London , in 1880-81) and Mr Thomas Mcllwraith (the ! Premier of Queensland) have been created ' Knights Commanders of Saint Michael and Saint George. | Mr William John Clarke, of Melbourne, ■ has been created a baronet. PARIS, Nov. 18. I j In the Chamber of Deputies, to-day, M. ; Duclerc, the Premier, presented a Bill pro- ' viding for the ratification of the De Brazzar j j Treaty with Madagascar, under which cer- ! i tain territory in that Island is acquired by j France.