SECOND EDITION VERY LATEST

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3126, 10 April 1883, Page 3

SECOND EDITION VERY LATEST

Bt Electric Telegraph—Copyright

'[Reuter’s Telegrams.] [Received April 10, 1883, 1 p.m.] Attempt to Blow up London. London, April 7. It is believed that the dynamite which has been seized in possession of the several persons recently arrested, was intended for a widespread explosion in London. Manufacturing DynamiteThe search which has been made of Whitehead’s factory, at Birmingham, which was seized on the sth instant, has disclosed material for the wholesale manufacture of nitro-glycerine. , Increasing Garrison. In consequence of the recent dis. o overies at Birmingham, a detachment of troops, has been sent to augment the force how garrisoned there. Casey and Flanagan who were arrested at Liverpool on March 31, charged with illegally landing explosives from Cork, have been farther examined, and committed for trial. Obituary. General Dean Pitt, died at Vienna on April 8. Murderers ArrestedThe burglars who attacked and strangled Herr De Magilath, President of the Hungarian Court of Causation, at his residence last month, have been arrested by the police at Buda-Pesth. Serious FloodsBerlin, April 8. Intelligence is to hand from Dantzig that the river Vistula has overflowed its banks and caused serious inundations in the city : and surroundings. < Hundreds of persons have been driven from their homes and much havoc has been caused. Xpo Houses Burned. Berne, Aprils. A terrible fire occurred to-day at Nallorhe in the Canton of Evaud (Switzerland). The conflagration raged for several hours, and caused the destruction of one hundred houses. ObituaryParis, April 8. Louis Veuillot, the French author and journalist is dead, aged 70. .. More Dynamite. London, April 8. j An American named Ansburgh was arrested yesterday in London with a quantity of nitro-glycerine in his pos- | session which, was immediately seized. The package-was addressed to Cork to ( the prisoners Casey and Flanagan, now i under committal at Liverpool.

. The Queen's Health. The health of the Queen is improving and her Majesty is now much stronger.

fßeceived April 10,1883, ,2 p.m.] Commercial. London, April 6. Console ate at 102 f. New Zealand Securities—s per cent 10-40 loan, 107£ ; 5 per cent 1889 loan, 106 ; 4£ per cent 1879-1904 loan, 102|; 4 per cent inscribed stock, 102£. Colonial.breadstnffs continue dull at j last quotations, viz.;—Adelaide flour, 345; Adelaide wheat, 50s; New Zealand wheat, '4ss to 49s ; all ex store. The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,350,000 quarters. Australian Tallow—Best beef is to* day quoted at 445; best mutton, 46s per cwt. ' t ' • . Galvanised iron (Gospel Oak) corrugated, packed in cases, f.o.b. in London, is quoted at £l9 10s, adecline of 10s. Best Sydney sun-dried copra has advanced 6s ton, and is now at £2O ss. Beat Australian leather is quoted at 104 d. „ The’Frisco Mail. The homeward mails vid San Francisco which'left Auckland on Feb. 27 were delivered in London to-day.