CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 97, 2 April 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

■ - (bkutbb's tblbgbamb.) THE NEW VICTORIAN GOVERNOR. (Received April 1, 2.20 p.m.) London, March 31. It is announced that Sir Henry Broughan Lock, K.C.8., formerly Governor of. the Isle of Mann, has been appointed Governor of Victoria vice Lord Normanby. FUNERAL OF THE LATE ALBANY. The funeral of the late Duke of Albany will take place at St. Georges Chapel, Windsor, on Saturday next. MESSAGE OF CONDOLENCE TO HER MAJESTY. Messages to the Queeu conveying condolence from Parliament, in the death.of Prince Leopold, passed both Houses to-day. UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE, The annual iuter-university boat race takes place on the Thames on Monday next. Consuls remain at 102|, and New Zealand securities at last quotations. -Whept .hap fallej, Is. per bushel, Adelaide', ex store, 435. ; New Zealand, 355, to 41s. A.delaide'iffd&f' has' declined to 295. Australian tallow has declined fid. per cwt., best average quality 375., mutton, 40s. (Received April 2, 0.55 a.m.) The Oriental Banking Corporation declares no dividend for the past halfyear, but carries forward- £7,000 to the reserve fund. April 1. Telegrams from Cannes announce that the Prince of Wales has started for England with the body of the late Duke of Albany. THE BLOODY BIOT—CONTINUED EXCITEMENT. New York, March 81. A force of 3,000 troops are now in Cincinnati with the object of preventing further rioting. The town continues in a very excited state. OBDEB RESTORED. Later.—The recent rioting at Cincinnati! has ceased, and order has been restored in that city. RENEWAL OF HOSTILITIES IN AFRICA. Capetown, March 31. News is to hand that tribal hostilities havo broken out in Basoutou Land and Zululaud, and’ heavy fighting is proceeding over a large area in both countries.