CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1304, 3 April 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

; BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—{COPYRIGHT.) (Reuters Telegrams.] LONDON, March 29. I In the House of Commons to-day Sir Wil- ! Ham Vernon Harcourt, Home Secretary, ; stated in reply to a question that enquiries ; i had been made by the police regarding the attack upon Laay Florence Dixie by two men disguised as women, but that the investigation had failed to confirm Lady Diuie’s narrative. A |Fenian who arrived at Liverpool from Cork was detected in the act of landing a box of explosives, and arrested by the police. March 31. The Speaker of the House of Commons has vetoed a motion providing for the protection of the Houses of Parliament by a detachment of troops. March 30. Two persons have been arrested at Cork in connection with the landing of cases of explosives at Liverpool, by a Fenien agent. WASHINGTON, March 30. Intelligence has been received here that Apache Indians have taken up arms and raided the white settlements in Mexico and Arizona territories, and have massacred 50 Europeans They threaten to annihilate the settlers and the Government has despatched a a strong body of troops to the latter's assistance. ST. PETERSBURG, March 31. It has transpired that the police succeeded to-day in surprising the Nihilist rendezvous, where a large number of members of the secret society were assembled. A severe struggle took place, but ultimately eight persons were arrested, one of whom, however, committed suicide while in the hands of the police. A quantity of dynamite was also seized on the premises.