CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 125, 3 May 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

IRISH AFFAIRS. RESCUE op a SURVIVOR PROM THE BRITISH COMMERCE. THE SECRET INQUIRY AT DUBLIN CASTLE. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. — COPYRIGHT. ) (SPECIAL JTO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, May 1. -So manynf the Irish prisoners having volunteered to become informers, tbe Government is seruKsly embartssedm .s* looting -tho-e whom it accepts as Queen's evidence. The American branches of the Land League have adopted the Philadelphia plfttfcrm. ; > . . . ilt is expected that an application will bej made by the British Government to the •Qovernment at Washington to extradite a number of Fenians who are implicated^ the fresh disclosures made regarding the proceedings of the Invincible Society. •Keefe has been executed for a murder at Cork. .. .■ . [ Stanley, one of the crew belonging to thejßhi:p British ■ Commerce, which was ron down and sank m -the Channel on Tuesday last, cliim? to a quantity of wreckage for several hours, and was rescued m a very exhausted condition. ' ! A fetter addressed to Mr Forster, containing explosives, has been discovered by the Post ( "ffice officials, who stopped its delivery. : 'A*meetihg or shipowuers will beheld on the 10th to consider proposals for floating anew Canal Company. J., O'Connor, a prominent Pamellite, resident m Cork, h*s been imprisoned for refusing to give evidence before the Secret inquiry, which is being held at Dublin^Castle. Pec Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association :~ ondon, April 30.—^ Arrived : fchips' Asbmore, from j Auckland : (Dec. 27) ; ivlercia, from Wellington (Jan 5) ; Wang>inui, <ro:n I Wellington (Jan. 1OV ; Serapis, from Port Chalmers (Feb. 10). Arrived, at New York : Caburfeidh, from Auckland (Feb. 3). : ■- ■ j-: The trial at Dublin of James Fitzharris, ,one of the Phoenix. Park prisioners, was finished to-day. The jury retired, -and after a short deliberation brought m a verdict of " ; Not Guilty " of the uiurder of Lord Cavendish and Mr Burke. i Amsterdam, May 1, Tbe International Colonial Exhibition was opened here to-day with great eclat. I The various colonial courts are well arranged, and make a splendid show of the product of th« '<sojooi.es.