CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 16 March 1881, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

.. . ♦ REUTER'S CABLEGRAMS. [fbom oub own cobbespondent.] St. Petebsbubg, March 13. The following are the particulars of the assassination of the Czar :—Accom•panied.by his suit be was witnessing a parade of troops in the city to«day, when a bomb was suddenly thrown from among the spectators and fell close to where he was standing. It exploded but

did do harm to his Majesty. A second bomb was thrown almost simultaneously and this shattered his legs and otherwise .mortally wounded him. He was at once conveyed to a house near at hand, but his Majesty died within two hours from loss of blood, though every effort was made by the doctors, who were at once in attenflance, to stop the flow. Great consternation was caused on the parade ground when the bombs were thrown, and when the effect of their explosion was seen, several person?, inclu* ding some members of the Czar's suit were killed and many others severely wounded. The assassin was arrested at the scene of the outrage before he had time to escape* : : March 14. The assassination of the Emperor led to no disturbance in the oity. All was perfectly quiet. The Czarewiteh has been received with shouts of acclamation by the people. Expressions of eon* I doleuce and sympathy with tba Imperial family have been received from all the Crown heads of Europe. „ London,. March 12. | Arthur Orton's appeal against being sentenced to successive terms of penal servitude has been dismissed. Gladstone has published a refutation of the rumor that the British Commander asked for an armistice in the Transvaal and says that President Brandt, of the Free State, proposed it in the interest of peace. . .Adelaide, March 15. JJecessary preliminary arrangements for holding an International Exhibition in this city have now been completed. Sydney, March 14. Nejrs from the Mount Brown diggings states that the water there is ex« hausfed, and' the population has shifted six miles. One man perished from exhaustion while proceeding to the field, and it is feared that great loss of life will take place unless rain falls. The schooner Leslie has arrived from the Solomon Islands, and reports that the master was murdered there by the natives, and that a rumor was current when she left that Captain Laurie, of the schooner Black Hawk, has also been murdered.