CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1301, 27 March 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—(COPYRIGHT.) [Reuter’s Telegrams. [ LONDON, March 21. News is to hand from South America, that hostilities have been resumed between Chili and Bolivia, and that a large force of Chilians are now marching on Lapaz, a large towii in the latter country. March 22. Her Majesty the Queen is confined to her room at Windsor Castle, owing to the effect* of a recent fall down a staircase. The injury was originally considered only trivial, hut Her Majesty’s knee has since become badly swollen, and complete rest is nec-ssary. March 23. The six men who were arrested at Belfast, charged with conspiracy to murder Irish landlords, have been tried and found guilty, hut sentence has not yet been pronounced by the Couit. The Queen is improving in health, the swelling in the knee having greatly lessened. March 24. Great nlcrm is being felt in the neighborhood of Chatham, by the belief that the Fenians have projected an attack by means of dynamite upon the dockyard and arsenal, and great vigilance is bein" shown by the military authorities to guard against the expected attack. NAPLES, March 21. Telegrams have been received from Messina, announcing that Mount Etna is in a very rigorous state of eruption, and that as the result several shocks of earthquake have been exporien. ed over the Islands of Sicily PARIS, March 21. M. de Benzz.a has organised a large party, and has started on another expedition to Congo, in Central Africa. March 22. The anarchists who were recently arrested I here on account of the disturbances at the Place des Invalides have now been released from custody. CAPETOWN, March 22. Intelligence is to hand from Titnbleland, in Franskie, that the Boers have refused the demand of the British authority that they 1 should forthwith quit the territory. The Boers are understood to be now arming and massing, and an outbreak of hoe till ties is feared, WASHINGTON, March 23. It is reported that the Hon. L. S. Sackville Went, British Minister, has drawn the attention of the United States Governmen: to the nature of the language employed by American Fenians, who urge the use of dynamite in order to obtain redress for their alleged grievances, and he has informed tho American Ministry that, the use of such language by American subjects will, if un checked, tern! to impair the relations between I us and Great Britain. j A report is current here that the person i alleged to be leader of the Dublin inner circle i of assassins, ami known as “ Number One.* has escaped to Mexico, and is beyond pursuit.