CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1356, 18 April 1883, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

Reuter's Te&egrams, BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT SYMEY, . Tuesday. Received April 17, 2.45 p.m.—The annual report of the Australian Mutual Providence Society for last year shows that the business was larger than that of any previous year, and comprised 6100 policies for assurances, amounting to £2,280,000, and new premiums amounted to £92,500. The . accumulated fund has been increased by £520,000,.and-stands' at £4,350,000. The total annual revenue is now £885,000, and the receipts from interest exceeds the amounts paid for death claims by £68,000. The seventh quinquennial division of surplus will be made up to the end of the year and hereafter profit be divided annually. LONDON, April 16. The markets for colonial breadstuffs and tallow are unchanged. MELBOURNE, April 17. The Colonial Bank of Australia at Brunswick, two and a half miles from this city, was robbed to-day of £6OO. The theft , was committed during office hours. The'manager was momentarily absent, and upon his return found that a drawer had been unlocked and the money abstracted. It is believed that the thief is a youth, but he has not up to the present time been arrested, LATJNOESTON, April 17. It is reported that , further attacks have been made upon the settlers in the neighborhood of Epping Forest, but the statements require confirmation. The details which have transpired during the trial of the youths, Ogden and Davies, for the murders committed last week, fully confirm the statements regarding the atrocity with which the coldblooded crimes were committed. LONDON, April 17. The London newspapers, it their leading articles this morning, commenting upon the annexation of New Guinea by the Queensland Government, generally express a doubt that the Imperial Government will approve of the action of the colonial authorities, In the.course of the trial of Daniel Curley, the second of the Phoenix Park prisoners, at Dublin yesterday, the informer, Carey, who was under examination, testified to the fact that twenty distinct plots had been formed for the assassination of, Mr Foster, the Chief Secretary for Ireland.

, ST.-PETERSBURG, April 16. It is announced that the coronation of the Czar has been postponed for a fortnight, until the 10th of June, Adelaide, 1 : April 17. Arrived, this morning—Orient Company's steamship Orient, from Plymouth (March 10): ' MELBOURNE, April 17. Arrived, this evening—P. and 0. Company's steam ship Eosetta, with the inward mails, via Suez-Brindisi, dated London, March 9. Sailed, this afternoon—Union Companv's steamship Tarawera, for the Bluff. Per Mer,cjiant Shipping and Underwriters' Association:—London, April 16.—Arrived—Ship Hermoine, from Auckland (December 4). LAUNCESTON, V Wednasday. No confirmation has been obtained of the reports current yesterday of further outrages in Epping forest. MELBOURNE, Wednesday. Received April. 18, 1.30 p.m.— Further particulars:,, regarding, the robbery at the Colonial Bank at Brunswick show that the sum of £715 was stolen, not as at first supposed. The Manager of thebranoh has been Biispend§d pending an inquiry into the MELBOURNE, . Wednesday. The Tarawera, which left' yesterday for the Bluff, took on board at the Heads the English' mails brought by the P, and 0. steamship Rosetta; " ; : LONDON,. , April 17, evening. H.M.S. Dragon,of.6.guM, ; haßbeen ordered to -Madagascar for the protection of British interests. , News is to hand that a French warship has captured Port Negra Loanga on the West African coast after severe fighting with the Obituary-Sir Philip . Rose Bart, the well-known solicitor, aged 67, !