BRITISH & FOREIGN

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3678, 28 April 1883, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN

By Electric Telegram.—Copyright,

[Reuteb's Telegeajis.] TRIAL OF THE DYNAMITE CONSPIRATORS. RETIREMENT OF KELLY'S JURY TO RECONSIDER EVIDENCE. FORMATION OF AN IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. MR GLADSTONE SUPPORTS THE AFFIRMATIONS IN LIEU OF OATHS BILL. DISCOVERY of a NITRO-GLYCERINE FACTORY AT NORTHAMPTON. RETURN OF MR. PARNELL TO ENGLAND. THREE MO HE FENIANS ARRESTED. ANOTHER PHOENIX PARK ASSASSIN FOUND GUILTY asd SENTENCED TO DEATH. LONDON. j ■ April 12 G. The trial of the dynamite eomspirators is still proceeding- at the Bow-street Police Court. Evidence was given te day proving that Whitehead, the proprietor of the Birmingham factory, had made enormous purclia«cs of acids to be u*ed in the manufacture of explosives. The jury in the case of Timothy Kelly, one of the Phoenix Park prisoners, have retired until Monday next to reconsider the evidence, and have not been discharged as previously stated. April 27. The formation of an Imperial Department of Agriculture is announced, the portfolio being allotted to the Right Hon. J. G-. Dodson. In the House of Commons last night the Affirmation in Lieu of Oaths Bill was again under consideration. During tlic course of the debate Mr Gladsone made a speech, in -which ho- strongly supported the measure. The discussion, was, however, adjourned^ A nitro-glycerine factory has been discovered by the police at Northampton. Mr Parnell, who has returned to England, has cabled to the Irish Convention at Philadelphia urging the delegated to adopt a prudent programme.

Three Fenians named Kingston, Gibney, and Healy have been arrested at Dublin charged on the evidence of an informer with conspiring to murder. Michael Fagan, the fourth of the Phccnix Park prisoners, has been found guilty and been sentenced to death.

The Orient Steam Navigation Company has declared no dividend for the past halfvear, but' carries £35,000 to the reserve fund.