CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1299, 22 March 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-(COPYRIGHT.) [ Reuter's Tel egr a ms. [ LONDON, March 17. Best Sydney copra sundried, £2O. Arrived, on the Brh February (sic. March), ship Cooleen, from Wellington, Nov. 13. March 19. The Government have announced in Parliament that they do not intend to send any mure war vessels to Madagascar, it being considered that H.M.S. Druid, now there, will suffice to watch the British interests. Sir William Harcourt, Home Secretary, announced in the House of Commons, to-day, that orders had been given for the increase of the Metropolitan Police Force by 500 men, in order to provide for the increased protection of public buildings. Fair demand prevailed at to-day’s wool sales. The catalogue comprised 12,300 bales. Consols remain at 102], New Zealand Securities continue at the following quotations : -5 per cent 10-40 loan 107 A ; 5 per cent 1889 loan. 104 ; 41 per cent 1879 1004 loan, 102; 4 per cent •inscribed stock, 101 The market continues weak, but prices are without change. Adelaide wheat, 50s ; New Zealand wheat, 46s ; Adelaide flour, 34s fid. all ex warehouse. Australian beef tallow remains at 40s Gd, and mutton at 43s fid. The homeward mails, via Naples, per Orient s.s. Sorata, which left Melbourne, Feb. 7, were delivered in London to-day.

Full particulars are now to hand regarding the attack on Lady Florence Dixie, she was walking in the grounds of her residence on the Thames, when the assailants made the desperate attack on her with daggers. The weapons twice penetrated her clothing, and her corset alone averted the fatal wounds. Her hands arc cut, but otherwise she is not injured. As she was struggling with the assassins she was overcome with terror, and fainted away, ami fell to the ground : two favorite dogs who were with her then stood over her body and kept the assa-siiis at hay. and finally drove them off. Lady Dixie has lately published letters denouncing the Land Leaguers, ami describing a recent \ isit which she made to Ireland.

ASSOCIATION;) For arrival of Cooleen. announced yester lay, read Glenlora. March 20. Payne, a Pam ell i to, has been elected with>ut opposition to the vacancy which has occurred in the representation of Tipperary, in the House of Commons. It has been announced that Mr C. P. Butt, | Q.G., Liberal M.P. for Southampton, has been appointed a .fudge in Probate Discourse a,nd Admiralty Division of the Supreme Court of Judicature, vice the Right Hon. Sir Robert Phillimore, Bart., resigned. PARIS, March 18. The projected gatherings of Socialists in this city to-day were complete fiascoes, ow- I ing to the small attendance. NEW YORK, March 18. : ’1 ho Land Leaguers in this city repudiate any connection with the explosions in London.