CABLE MESSAGES.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 407, 12 March 1879, Page 2

CABLE MESSAGES.

[Reuter’s- Telegrams.]" MELBOURNE. March 8J Autumn meeting—NewMarket Handicap l —Diomedes, Ist ;• Le Loup; 2nd. Steeplechase —-Starlight,- 1st 1 ; Prodigiotis, 2nd. The return’cricket match resumed to-day.-Victorian’s first innings, 146 : ; second innings, 155 ; English team—second innings, 31, for four wickets.- The - latter require only 22 to win, with six wickets tofall. March 10'. The match between Lord Harris’ team and the Victorians is- concluded, and has resulted m a victory for the former by six wickets. Some of the English team leave here to-morrow for New Zealand. The health of the Marchioness of Normanby is gradually improving. The overland line between; Adelaide and Port Darwin is again interrupted. Lord Harris’ team of cricketei's have disbanded —four proceed to New Zealand,and tlie rest return home via Suez, SYDNEY. March - llp~. Bonnie- Dundee run down by steamer Banabool near Newcastle, and sunk in few minutes. Four female passengeis were drowned. All the crew saved. Arrived Zamboana. March 10. Arrived—Hero and Tararna, A large meeting of citizens adopted a farewell address to Governor Robinson. LONDON. March 7. Negotiations for the purchase of Australian cable for the purpose of connecting Aden and Natal lias been broken off temporarily, but a favorable issue is not expected. BERLIN. March 8. German Parliament rejected the Parliamentary Discipline Bill. ROME* , March 8. Sentence of death has been passed on the perpetrator of the attempted-assassina-tion of King of Italy on 17th November last.