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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1213, 29 November 1882, Page 2

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[reuter’s telegrams]. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—(COPYRIGHT.) LONDON. Nov. 25. Consols remain 102,1,. New Zealand securities and Colonial produce unchanged. The market rate of discount has fallen to ; Bank rate 5. The catalogue at to-day’s wool sale comprised 8,200 bales : the prices were steady, but the demand was not active, Nov. 2li. News has been received here that a detective has been shot at and killed in Dublin by a Fenian. The murderer was, however, wounded by the police, and arrested with two others after a severe struggle. H.R.H. the Duke of Ediugburgh has now quite recovered from the attack of bronchitis with which he was recently seized, James Lilly white, the well known cricketer, is dead. Nov. 27. In the election which has taken place for the vacancy in the representation of Cambridge in the House of Commons, the Right Hou, C. Ixaik.es, Conservative, has been returned by a large majority over the Liberal candidate. Further details regarding the murder yesterday of a detective in .Dublin are to hand. It is now known that an encounter took place in the city between a gang of ten men, who are stated to be Fenians, and a party of six detectives, in which one of the latter was shot and mortally wounded. His comrades turned on the murderer, and wounded and captured him. A desperate struggle ensued, but the police ultimately effected the arrest of four of the gang. A strict enquiry is now being made into the affair, which has caused great excitement and dismay in the city. The capture of the remainder of the gang has not yet been ejected.