CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1347, 7 April 1883, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

Kol' ; : ' TELEGrIvh—COPYRIGHT -:.•;'• : .' April '" The Oriental Bank' Corporation Has. declared'a'-dlvideridof two per.centfor the past half-year.' ; . ...;.. ..'. .-. .Arrived;. at : Plyraquttiv-.to : day~Pi arid 0. Company's steamship from Melbourne, February: iS;" ; ~'<'p'' ■ ; T ,,'; I ';;:lQ|pON,;,V C:'P ; ""' : ' '', "ipiiili, evening,: ; :*. Received Apri1.6,4.15 p.m.—A manias arrested at an hotel in the Strand to-day with ii quantity,- of dynamite in his possession. Two otherr'nien,; b.e-; to.be accomplices 'p'f his,':have : been', arrested at ;l Lainhethi Ll '' .., A factory, which ,is proved to hiiVe been., used;,; for; ; the,; manufacture : of dynamite, has been' seized 1 by'the' police of Birmingham, and' W',now occupied by a strong force'pl constables; Several arrests have been made ; of persons'lielieved to be cpniieoted'with the manufactory. -'-' ; ' >.--: ■'

ST. PETERSBURG,,'-' ... ■ ! ■/ . / v :.::v4prils..; Intelligence is'to,hand;from Moscow announcing the'discovery of a" miue in that city,.which is believed ; 'fo : be the work of Nihilists. ■/••:;®?y^'. ;.. • : ~.. ; .. ■■].;} ;^April'4r; : ; Thirty men residingl-;ln''' : ;BcHleswigHolstein have h,een. senfenclefe to"oJan;. ishment for refusing to ! sdrVe in the German army,, ,,—. The National Theatre in' this city was,totally destroyed.by. fire to-day! The' building, was 1 fortunately empty at the time. :..'':.•;:■■

A number of Socialists.' 'have■ been arrested at Kiel, a townirith'e.'province of Schleswig-Holsfcieii. ';'''■'''!';.:. "'■ '; <'■ ■[■ ' •'•■'■ v.Aprili , Earl Dufferin, in replying to : a petition presented to him by a number of Europeans praying for the/permanent occupation of Egypt by;Britisti has intimated that the British force now; in the country will not be. "witbdrawn for-the present. '•■■ '\LONDON,,; r ■:..': ;V; April 6..... Received April 7.1.15'a-ra.—tn'the House of Commons' last nighti. the Kight■;,. Hon. ,H. 0.., E. : ; Childevs, Chancellor for the Exchequer, delivered liis budget speech, : He stated that the revenue for the past financial.year amounted to iß9,ooo,ooo,>na'/ihe expenditure to £88,875,000. Theievenue; for the ensuing year,. 1883,-84,;. was estimated at -£88,500,000; and penditure at £85,500,000,-'leaving;a surplus of £3,463,500; It was prdpbsod to devote £17.0,000 of ,the\ surplus to the reduction of charges on telegrams from; Is'to 6d. -'A would be absorbed 5 % v the proposed abolition of the passenger duty' paid by railway companies, upon .penny a mile fares) and 1 to'reduce the duty, upon faresabovo a penny a milo of two per cent,: A proposed reduction of in the income tax was also announced, leaving a balance of £240,000.

Aii American named Dalton was attested last evening in : connection with the dynamite conspiracy ,now being investigated by the police. Another man who has been arrested is charged with being concerned in'the' explosion of dynamite, by which the Local 'Government Board' J offices iu Whitehall wore wrecked on the IGtlr instant, ~,,,,.

In the House of Commons yesterday Sir, Wm. Yernon Harconrt, in the 'course of a speech, referred to the reI'cent dynamite explosions, and to the conspiraciesi which had been discovered, and stated that the gravity of the outbreak would render legislation upon the subject necessary,