CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 78, 28 February 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

[Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] [Reuter’s Telegrams.] London, Feb. 26. A destructive explosion occurred at midnight of a large quantity of dynamite which had been deposited as luggage at the cloakroom of the Victoria Station, the terminus of the London, Chatham, and Dover railway. Seven persons were injured, and great damage was inflicted upon the stone stationbuilding and adjacent property. The Right Hon. Sir H. B. W. Brand, exSpeaker of the House of Commons, has been raised to the Peerage under the title of Viscount Hampden, and in the House of Commons to-day, Mr. A. W. Peel, Liberal M.P. for Warwick, was elected Speaker unopposed. (Received Feb. 27, 2.-10 p m.) Evening. A credit for half a million sterling, to cover the expenses of the British expedition to the Soudan, is shortly to be asked for by the Government in the House of Commons. There is no clue to the perpetrators of the explosion which occurred at the Victoria railway-station. The police have in their possession, however, a Gladstone bag, which burst open by explosion of dynamite, and found in the wrecked cloak-room. The death is announced of the Right Hon., Thomas Milner Gibson, formerly a wellknown politician and a member of the

Palmerston and Russell Administrations from 1855 to 1865, aged 77. The consignment of frozen mutton (6,548 carcases) ex steamship Iberia from Sydney has been examined and found to be in good condition. Consols remain at 101£. New Zealand securities are now at: — 5 per cent. 10-40 loan, 5 per cent. 18R9 loan, 104; 4| per cent. 1879-1904 loan, 100 ex. div.; 4 per cent, inscribed stock, 100. The market rate of discount has fallen to 3&, and is now g below the Bank rate. Fair average quality Australian tallow remains at 38s. per cwt. for beef, and 41s. 6d. for mutton. Adelaide wheat (ex store) is still at 445., and New Zealand (ditto) at 365. to 425.; Adelaide flour (ex waiehouse) has fallen to 30s. At the wool auction yesterday, 11,600 bales were offered, and a fair demand was experienced. Cairo, Feb. 26. Telegrams from Souakim state that the black troops in garrison there have become mutinous, and threatened to join El Mahdi. A force of British marines will, therefore, remain at Souakim as a garrison, and to preserve order. Evening. The advance of the British expedition, now encamped near Suakim, will, it has transpired, be delayed for some days. Much anxiety is felt at Souakim in consequence of the disaffection amongst the Khedive’s black troops there.