CABLEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1114, 4 August 1882, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

[Reuter’s Sbecxah.] LONDON. August 2. _ A portion of the cargo which consists of 4,500 carcasses of mutton and a quantity of beef ex steamship Lusitania was sold by auction to day. The mutton realised an average of Ofd per lb. The cricket match at Liverpool was resumed to-day, weather was fine, but the wicket was heavy. The Liverpool Club in their first innings scored 112. A. G. Steele being the highest scorer with 50. The Home team being 128 behind, and the Australians followed on, and put together 137 runs in their second innings. The Australians requiring 10 runs to win, went in for their second innings, but time only permitted of their scoring six for the loss of one wichet. The match was therefore drawn, the Australians having four runs to make and nine wickets to fall. Age Specials. LONDON. August 3, 4.46 p.m. A British picket was routed by the enemy near Ramleh. The Natives in Cairo are re-opening their shops and apparently ignoring Arabi. Thirty-three vessels have been chartered at Bombay for the transport of troops, and the forces under MajorGeneral McPherson, V. C., are now embarking.

“Abgub” Special. LONDON. August 3. The repulse of the British picket is unfounded. It is reported that Arabi Pasha is shooting the loyalists at Cairo. Official information states that Russia deprecates isolated actions, and hopes that England will co-operate with the Conference. Sir Garnet Wolseley has started for Egypt. Greek troops have occupied a Turkish village in Arta. An explanation has been demanded by the Porte. The Editor of the " Freiheit" has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment for an article justifying the assassination of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr Burke. The bulk of the Sorrento's cargo of meat has been purchased to provision the transports. The Lusitania’s meat is in excellent condition. ALEXANDRIA. Aug. 2. A party of Bedouin Irregulars advanced against the British lines at Ramleh to-day, and succeeded in effecting a surprise. The picket outposts were driven in, and retired in disorder, but returned on the arrival of reinforcements from the camp, when the Arabs fled. The affair proved a bloodless one.

The Naval Brigade has been landed from the British fleet, and has occupied Menuf near this city in force. This movement has been taken in consequence of the attitude of the Bedouin A tabs who uro niMsiug in the

neighborhood of Lake Marcotis and threatening the city and whose advance it has been found necessary to check.

CONSTANTINOPLE. Aug. 2. The question of the neutrality of the Suez Canal is now being discussed by the Conference of European Ambassadors. At to-day’s sitting the Italian Representative proposed that the Great Powers should now operate with a view to the establishment of collective naval protection. It is not yet known whether this course has been adopted by the Conference.