BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3109, 20 March 1883, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright [Reuter’s Agency.] [Received March 19,1883, 10 30 p,m,[ Copra London, March 18. Best Sydney copra, sun dried, is quoted at £lO. ShippingArrived—On February Bth (sic) ship Cooleen from Wellington (left Novcmher 13th). The Dastardly Attack on Lady Dixie March 19. Full particulars are now to hand regarding the attack on Lady Dixie. She was walking in the grounds of her residence on the Thames, when her assailants made a desperate attack on her with daggers. The weapons twieo penetrated her clothing and her corset alone averted fatal wounds. Her hands are cut but otherwise she is not injured. As she was struggling with her assassins she was overcome with terror, and fainted away and fell to the ground. Two favorite dogs, who were with her, then stood over her and kept the assassins at bay, and finally drove them off. Lady Dixie has published letters denouncing the Irish Land Leaguers and describing the recent visit which she made to Ireland. [Lady Florence Dixie, to whom public attention will now be more than ever drawn, _ is the sister of the present Marquis of Queensberry. Bhe is still quite a young woman, having been born in 1857. In 1875 she married Sir A. Beaumont Churchill Dixie, Bart., and there is one son by the marriage, born in the following year. One of their residences is known as “ The Fishery,” at Windsor, Lady Florence is a remarkable woman. She has travelled in South Africa and Patagonia, and wrote an account of her adventures in the latter country. Her wonderful skill in rifle shooting excited the admiration of the Boers.]

Socialists Afraid. Paexs, March 18. The projected gatherings of Socialists in this city to-day were a complete fiasco owing to the small attendance. The Explosions in London. New York, March 18, A Land Leaguer in this city repudiates any connection with the explosion in London. [Special to the “ Star.”] United Action against Anarchists. London March 19. The Great Powers are collectively discussing the desirability of taking united action against (he Anarchists, who threaten the peace in different parts of Europe. The Irish papers express a fear that the recent Fenian outrages atteroped. in England will re-act disastrously om Irishmen generally who live in EnglandAn Egyptian Loan. The Egyptian Government is about to raise a loan of five millions for the* purpose of compensating the sufferers by the late insurrection, and to defray the expenses of the English army of occupation.