LATE BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3108, 19 March 1883, Page 3

LATE BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

A dead meat storage company is projected. It proposes to secure extensive •chambers under Smilhfield Market, to .be fitted up with refrigerating apparatus, ■The capital is £IOO,OOO. O’Donovan Rossa attributes the attempt to blow up the Government offices to the action of some “ skirmishers." It is stated that the natives are combining against the Boers. Mr Forster urges that the Convention should be strictly observed in South Africa, or England should withdraw altogether.. A Zulu deputation is proceeding to Natal to urge the restoration of the reserves. The British Resident appears to have no influence with Getewayo.

The attempt to blow up the new Government offices in Parliament street by dynamite was made by placing the ■explosive on a bullustrade outside the portion of the building occupied by the Local Government Department, the basement of which was entirely wrecked by the explosion. No lives were lost, but for a radius of a hundred yards .ever window was broken, and huge •blocks of masonry were hurled a conconsiderable distance. The walls and floors of the Houses of Parliament trembled greatly. In the second .attempt to blow up the. pubfishing office ‘ of the “ Times ’ aometliing went wrong withjbej^gi l "

containing the explosive, and so the attempt failed. The Press generally regard those attempts as a response on the part of the Fenians to the rejection by the House of Commons of Mr Parnell 8 suggestions for the amendment of the Land Bill. ,