CABLEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1080, 30 May 1882, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

[from our own cor respondent]. London, 3lav 27. The House of Commons stands adjourned to Thursday next fur W.’.itsuntide holidays. The youth named Albert Young, aged 17, formerly employed as eh rk in the railway telegraph oilice, .l)oucastur, wiiu ’.v.-o-, rr<.-.-■ < d m-t iHiOiih ..;i j a ehu? /■ of seiiiliioi I hiv Denin ; i. • ■■ to the tj'.iecn with i he object o! extort- I ing money from Her .'.lajimiy, has been found goiity and st-Htunced to | ten years impri>«mmuijt. | James Lilly while, who accompanied • the la d team of Ej cHdmu.rs to • t'.ie colonies, ha; writien .-. h.-’iur 1 ‘ papers denying 1 he truth of the ruoorls ■ recently circulated regarding the al- ; ledgeil conspiracy be! wcejj the Eoglijhnien and certain A u.Mraimii b.-i .ing ' mutch pl.ivcd. ' j May 26. The race for the Oaks was run at 1 Epsom io-day, andre-mlied as follow— Geheimnisd, 1.->t; Marguerite, 2nd; Nellie, 3. Cairo, id ay 27. i Since the resignation of the Council of Ministers the Khedive has issued a proclamation ummuijciug that he lias! assumed the supreme control of the I Egyptian army. Many of the Generais arc. however, openly nrg-; ing the deposition of TewLk Pasha, * and have sent a demand to 11 is High- 1 ness that Arabi Pasha should, within I twelve hours, be reinstated as Minister of War. The Khidive has resolutely | ; refused to agree 1o the demand, ami | the position of affairs seemed most critical. Sydney, May 29. ( Mr Thomas Walker of Yaralla, who is about to proceed on a t rip to Eng- i 1 land, has distributed the sum of £l6OO ; among various New South Wales i i charities. The Krug Champagne Sculling' 1 Trophy, which was rowed for on the 1

I arainatta r ver, <ut ,*vitur-uty, was won by Fities, Victorian a natcur sculler. Melbourne. May 29. The Victorian II umatie Society pro-po-e to give rewards to the survivors of Ihe recent -iii'astor at Timaru. Edwards has been awarded £lOOO, and Gmm.-on £.hoo‘) for injuries susr.tini d at the Jollimont railway accident last year.