CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 83, 5 March 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

[Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] [Reuter’s Telegrams.] London, March 3. The police have obtained a clue to the perpetrators of the recent dynamite outrages and to the depositors of the infernal machines at the various metropolitan railway-stations. Three Americans are believed to be the guilty parties, and the police are trying to find their whereabouts. In the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Vernon Harcourt, the Home Secretary, made a statement regarding the dynamite plots which had been discovered, and announced that orders have been given that rigorous measures should be pursued against any foreign dynamite emissaries who may be arrested. Consols have fallen to 1011; Bank rate of discount 3|, and the market rate 3), per cent. New Zealand securities are now as follows :— 5 per cent. 10-40 loan, 102 ex div.; 5 per cent. 1889 loan, 104; 41 per cent. 1879-1904 loan, 102 J (?); 4 per cent, inscribed stock, 100. Breadstuffs market is unchanged. Adelaide wheat, ex store, is at 445. ; New Zealand ditto, 365. to 425.; Adelaide flour, ex store, 30s. The stock of tallow in London to-day is 8,200 casks, as compared with 7,400 casks on Feb. 1; Australian average quality beef is now at 38s. 6d., and mutton 425. The catalogue at Saturday’s wool-auction comprised 12,200 bales. The market continued firm, but the demand was not active. Constantinople, March 3. Telegrams are to hand from the Island of Candia, reporting that a religious ferment has commenced among the Cretans, who repudiate the Mussulman Governor of the island, and threaten to revolt unless he be removed. Cairo, March 3. The latest intelligence from Souakim states that Baker Pasha and Colonel Burnaby, who were wounded during the battle, were yesterday progressing favorably. Osman Digna, the rebel commander, is now encamped at a distance of eight miles from Souakim, and it is expected that a battle between the rebels and British troops will shortly take place.

Intelligence has been received here from Colonel Stewart, who was despatched some weeks ago to the White Nile districts, in the extreme south of Nubia, with the object of endeavoring to pacify the native tribes, who were joining El Mahdi’s ranks. Colonel Stewart reports that his mission has proved a failure, all efforts to pacify the rebellious tribes having been futile.