CABLE NEWS.
SOUTH AFRICA.
REDUCTION OP THE TELEGRAPH TARIFF.
AND ALBANIA.
FENIAN THREATS TO BLOW UP THE POST OFFICE.
(BY BLBOTBIC TBLBGRAPHI — COPYRIGHT. ) (special to united, pbjsss association.) ■■'"'- • JLiONDON, March 30. The Baautos have solicited. to be placed under the direct rule of the Itnt^rial Government, but they are willing •> to submit to rule of the Cape j (government if the other cannot be obtained. The Hous«rof Commons has passed a resolution m favor of sixpenny tele* grams, The schooners now employed m island cruising m connection with H.M. ships on the Australian station are to be sold out of the service, and it is reported that H.M.S. Goshawk aad Swinger will be commissioned to replace them. Both are gunboats ot 430 tohi, carrying four guns each. The Italian Press deny that the P. and O. Company have abandoned Brfndisi as a port of call. The cdtnjßin j explain that their plans for the resumption of the Marseilles route are as yet incomplete. Considerable excitement prevails throughout Albania o^ing "to- fears being . entertained' of the Austrian occupation. "" :i j y:ii The Fenians, hava threatened to blow up thf General Post Office, JCbndon, with dynamite, unless the prisoners now m custody on charges m connection, with the Phosaix Park; murder^ are immediately released ; : ' \
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 98, 3 April 1883, Page 2
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212CABLE NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 98, 3 April 1883, Page 2
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