HOME NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1373, 25 October 1883, Page 4

HOME NEWS.

We gather from the British and Foreign Home nows, that the homeward mails via Naples, from Melbourne on September sth, per Orient steamship Potosi, were delivered here to-day.— The Oriental Bank Corporation declares no dividend for the past half-year, but carries forward £30,000 to the reserve fund. —Three men named Agricue, Bracken, and Holmes have been arrested at Halifax with dynamite in their possession. Supposed infernal machines containing clock work was also found upon them. The prisoners are suspected of being Fenian emissaries.—Dr Benson, the Archbishop of Canterbury, is Buffering from fistula, and an operation for its removal [is to be performed to-morrow.—A serious explosion occurred to-day in a coal m.ne near Barnsley. According to the latest reports twenty miners have been killed and a number injured.—Official estimates to hand from the province of Anatolia, Asia Minor, give the number of lives lost at 200. The distress among the inhabitants is very great. —A further outbreak of cholera has occurred near Alexandria Great precautions are being taken to prevent the spread of the disease.—Her Majesty offered the ex-Empress Eugenie the autumn tenancy of Abergildie Castle, which was courteously declined.— The London night police are to be armed. Two or three burglaries, in which fire arms phyeda leading part, have changed public opinion on [the subject, and the general feeling is that the officers of the law should be armed at once.—lt is announced that the uncollected writings of Taackerry are included in Smith and Elder’s new edition, which will contain his earlier contributions to Punch and other magazines.