CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 48, 24 January 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

'Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] [Reuter’s Telegrams.] London, Jan. 22, Two packages containing dynamite have been discovered in the tunnel near Huston Square Railway Station, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was about to travel northwards by the London and North-western line, and the discovery was made prior to his departure, It is believed that it was intended to wreck the train by which the I‘rince proposed to travel, and it is thought that the projected outrage is the work of Fenian emissaries, but up to the present time no arrests have been made by the police, The discovery has caused much excitement and indignation,

Tenders for the Victorian loan of four millions sterling at four per cant, and a minimum of par, were opened to-day, The total amount offered was found to be £5,550,000. Tenders at £lOO Is. 6d. will receive 90 per cent., and above that price in full. The death is announced to-day of Earl Grosvenor, heir to the dukedom of Westminster, aged 31. The English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank has declared a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum, and places £14,000 to the reserve. Consols have declined to 101$, New Zea* land securities are unchanged at last quotations. Cairo, Jan. 22. News to hand from the Soudan states that Baker Pasha, since his arrival, has been parleying with the Sheiks of the Desert Arab tribes, and with considerable success, several of them who have been in rebellion having submitted to the Egyptian Government.