CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 937, 29 November 1881, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN. Melbourne, A box containing valuable documents belonging to Professor Eeuleaux, the German Commissioner to the Exhibition, is missing. It contains all the vouchers for money expended by the German representative in Melbourne, and its nonappearance has caused uneasiness to the authorities in Germany, The box, which was shipped by the vessel Khedive in May last, was insured for £230 by the South British Company of New Zealand.

A valuable gold chain and locket waR presented to Captain Carey by the deck officers, engineers, and seamen on arrival of the steamer Te Anau. Considerable dissatisfaction is felt at the Cricket Association charging the English Eleven 10 per cent, for patronage, and a number of promised players have intimated their intention of playing independently of the Association. John Sergeant, for assaulting Mr Munro, has been committed for tial. The evidence given at the Police Court waß similar to that previously furnished. The prisoner acted more like a madman, and laid about him iu Munro's drawing-room with a large brass picture rod. The damaje he did amountod to over L3OO. In court he conducted himself in a manner unlike a sane man. The Bench deolmed to reduce the heavy bail first fixed, as Munro was in fear of his life. The action of Corr versus the Standard Insurance Company—to recover insurance on the schooner Alma, stranded in the Grey River—was concluded yesterday, and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff for the full amouut claimed. HobartTows. Thousands of people are visiting the scene of the reputed volcanic eruption in the vicinity of Long Kiver. The belief is now expressed that the fire was caused by the burning of peat moss. Sydney, Nov. 28. Frosh casos of small-pox are still reported. A boating accident at Sandgate re : suited iu the drowning of four persons out of five on board.