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(UKUTKR'a. SPEOfAI,.) ' <> THE CLOTURE. London 1 , March 30. It is expected that Government will have a majority of 26 in the division on cloture in the House of Commons to-night. ... , THE CIIANNBL TUNNEL. A protest ag.iinstV the construction of the projected tunnel under . .the channel is being largely .signed; and by many influential-people;' : ; ; ; ;THE UNIVERSITY , BOAT.; RACE. The :Uniyei'sity boat ; race' take6place on' Saturday nextisthe Ist,April. /■, The Oxford' crew is the .favourite, the betting bi'ing Bto'l on it. , . ' London, March 29. . ' Five persons. have been arrested on suspicion of übeing: implicated iu; tlie hiurder committed yesterday in Dublin, 1 tlie'motive for which is supposed to 1 luve been a political. one.. A nunibcr of arms, and several papers of a sedinature wei'o found, iii the p sspssioii of tlie. accused, , and have been seized by tlie poliee.,, ; : ;, r f - The Election of a member !of- the House of'Corambns for-Caeraarvon, in the room of the late i\lr W. B. Hughes, a Liberal, took place; to-day,' 'and resulted in the return of : Mr 'G. Pitrvy, the Liberal caßclulate,' by' a laigu majority over the Radical.candidate. The liight lion. John Bright; has introduced iri the House of .Commons, on behalf of the Government, u bill to disfranchise, ! on' account of corrupt pVadtico,;. ,the:;;bprougliß .of Boston, Macclesfield,' and danterbury,' ancl to further suspend for the same cause the seats for Ohestor. Gloucester, Oxford, Randwick, and Wgan.
. Arrived i.JSliip: Wairoa, from. Wellington, December 27. ■■ Consols;'rfemain : ' ; at ,! 10% aiid" New Zealand securities at yesterday's quotations. Adelaide.wheat, ex warehouse; unchanged,- at 54f) 6d j.- and New Zealand, ditt6,'sls, :: Adelaide'- flour, 1 ex store, declined Is.; quoted to-day 37s 6d. Australian tallow: Best beef, 39s 6d; best'mutto'n,'44s 6d.;; : ; At the wool sale to-day 7300 bales were catalogued; tho tone of the sale «again firm.. . ; '.' , t , . The Bank of. South Australia: has declircd a dividend of 5 per cent, for the past half year.- -... - AUSTRALIAN./ ! Sydney,'Tlinraday. . The schooner Primsi Donna,. 85 tons, in ballast, has been totally, wrecked at Bondi,.on; tho coast, a few : miles • south of Sydney. l?ive. : of,tho .crew-have perished, 1 : but. the oaptain' has been saved. Melbourke, Thursday. , < The brig Alexandra has'gone-ashore in the neighbourhood of Warnambool Bay, and become a total wreck. • ■ -
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XIV, Issue 4197, 31 March 1882, Page 3
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369CABLE MESSAGES. Thames Advertiser, Volume XIV, Issue 4197, 31 March 1882, Page 3
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