CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 4, 3 November 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

(Fuom ora own CoaßEßroWftgNt.) SERIOUS COLLISION IN ST. GEORGE'S CHANNEL . i . . LONtXW, fioy.i k News hss just retched London that a steamer proceeding from Dublin to Holy, head has been sunk Further intelligence to hand regarding the disaster states that the calamity was occasioned by a CoUiiiun between the mall packet from H 'lyhead, running between Holyhead and Dublin, and the steamer Alhambra Both vessels were evYerely injured, and sunk shortly after the collision. The majority of the passengers and crews were s tved by the ship's boats, but fifteen person# were drowned. . . The InternaHonal Fbheriea'e EihiblHon was formerly closed to-day by the Prince of Wales. In a speenh on the occasion Hie Royal Highne«s chose the opportunity of , spemdly thanking the colonies for their j assistance, and expressed a hope that the proj cled exhibition in 1886 would result in the permanent foundation of a colonial museum In (.ondon.

I’hre* further failures in large sums have occurred in Liverpool. Increased anxiety prevails in commercial circles. THE SERIOUS KXPLOSIONS IN LONDON.

The explosions which have occurred on the the Underground Railway are believed to have been caused by dynamite in the hands of Fenian emissaries. Too Metropolitan Stations are now guarded by strong bodies of police, and the approaches to the tunnels watched The affair has caused considerable alarm in the metropolis.

THE FRANCO CHINESE DTFFIULTt* PARIS, October Bl.

The debate on the Eastern policy of the Government was resumed in the Chamber of Depui ios to- lay. In the course of hit speech on position of affairs in Tonquin, M. Perry averred that there was no expectation of war with China, n ith-r France ttor that country being desirous of an appeal to armi. A. vote of confidence in the Government was carried at the close of the debate by a sub* st.ntial majority. REBELLION IN ARABIA. BOMBAY, October 81 4 Intelligence is to hand that a rebe.iion 4 under the leadership of the Sultan's brother, has broken out in Oman, a minor kingdom in tlrn suuth east portion of Arabia. Th# ebels laid siege to Muscat, the capital, and camped in great force around the city. The Inmuun (Sultan i has appealed to ths commander of H.M.S. Phi'omel, 3 guns, f>r assistance, which has been granted, and according to t.he latest accounts that ship is engaged .n shelling the position occupied by tne besiegers near Muscat. EGYPT. ROUTE OF THE REBELS. ALEXANDRIA, Oct. 31. _ Telegrams are to band announcing that Kgyptiuu feces tin ier General Hicks Pasha, completely routed •he rebd followers of the false prop et, El Madi, and occupied the town of Oheid, which wai taken by the rebels in February IhSI.