LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1248, 21 March 1883, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

(PER REUTF.R f 8 AGENCY.) Received, March 19, 10.80 p.m. London, 19. Fall particulars are now to hand regarding the attack on Lady Florence Dixie. She was walking in the srounds of her residence on the Thames, when her assailants made a desperate uttack on her with daggers. The weapons twice penetrated her clothes, and her corset alone averted the fatal wounds. Hsr hands are cut, iut otherwise she is not injured. As she was struggling with tha assassins she was overcome with terror, and fainted away. Two favorite dogs who were with her then stood over her body, and kept the assassins at bay, and finally drove them off. ' 1 ady Dixie has lately published letters denouncing the Leaguers, and describing the recent visit which she made to Ireland. - Paris, 18. The projected gathering of Socialists in this city to-day was a complete fiasco, owing to the small attendance. New York, 18. The 1 eaguers in this city repudiate any connection with the explosion in London. Sydney, March 19. Arrived : Steamship Hauroto, from Wellington. Horses scratched for the Sydney

Cup : — Coriolanus, Gladiator, ■ and Lyanatia. • ■ - > ■ (Received March 20V'12.50 p.m.) MelbournKjtSQ- . Obituary : Captain .Frederick Chas. I Standish, aged 59. Deceased was formerly Chief Commissioner of Police in Victoria. , -An .extensive firS. has occmi*ed at, Mesgrs Crispie and Swinboura's timber store, situated in Bourke-street, near Goldsborough's wool warehouses, A large stock of lime has been completely destroyed. • The Government h&3 received a communication ,fr.ojn. Jtfew Zealand to the effect ihat the -Minisfcsr cannot attend thifc"' propbsed^Postal Conference, owing to the approaching Parliameutary .seision. ■ * ' 8 "5 Sydney, 20.' The latest.betting: on the. . Sydney Cup is as follows :— 5 to 1 against Sweet William; 6 to 1 Stockdale; 7 to 1 Mistaken; 10 to i ; Willeroo. Received, March 20, 2.20. p.m. 19. n liiiiiiiiiijiif'tiT'rr'Tii'i rnrinv-'tr Parliament, that it is not intended to send any more war vessels to Madagascar, it is considered tnat ELM.S Drjad, now there, will sufficiently v.atch British interests. SirVernon Harcourt, Home Secretary announced in the House of Commons to-day, that orders had been given for an increase of the metropolitan police force by ;fivfe hundred men. The order provides increased protection of public buildings. In .the appeal case Bbyd.v Chamberlain, the demurer td plaintiffs pleas has been allowed by 'the Court of Appeal.- ' " ' " Received, March 20, 3 p.m. Sydney, March 20. It is understood that Capeland, Minister of Works, i 3 at once resigning his portfolio in consequence of strictures passed on his conduct at the banquet on Saturday last (St. Patrick's Day), when he* was introduced, and made an injudicious speech; m favor of Irishmen, and justified his refusal to grant a free railway pass to Redmond.