CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1646, 28 March 1884, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

' Reuter's Telegrams. [by :electltio telegraph—copyright.] SYDNEY, .. March 26. Intelligence of a serious outrage committed by the natives of New Ireland has reached here, Advices state that the native's burnt the Hernchein Company's trading station at Noosa, and murdered Captain Molter and all the cre'w of the schooner Meokeo. Subsequently the vessel-was destroyed iby fire. The German corvette Hyaene has sinco visited the scene of the outrage and shelled the native village, killing six of the inhabitants. "A sculling match has been arranged with Hanlanfor £IOOO a-side, to be rowed on tho Nepean River on May 22. Mr Hunt, who has, arranged the match, will nominate either Tricketfc or Beach as Hanlan's opponent,. MELBOURNE, .

March 2G, Sailed, this afternoon—Union steamship Te Anau, for the Bluff. ALABAMA, March 26, Arrived, this morning—P,o steamship Valetta, in King George's Sound, with an inward Brindisi Mails, dated London, Eebruary 22. LONDON, March 25. Tho homeward mails, via Suez and Brindisi, from Melboumo (February 14), was delivered lerc to-day. . SAN'FRANCISCO, March 24, The steamship Zealandia, with the homeward mail, dated Auckland March 4/arrived here yesTerday, 'NEWYOUK, . • March 25,

News has been received here that the Missiouri (? Mississipi) has overflowed its banks, and tliat.an immense track of country near New Orleans is submerged, It is feared that many persona havo beon drowned. MELBOURNE, "'• ; ■".." Thursday, A grand masonic ceremony took place at the Melbourne Town Hall yesterday, when 'Sir William Clarke ;was installed District Grand Master of the English, Scotch, and Irish constitutions. Fully three thousand masons were present. In the evening a levee and banquet were held at the Town Hall, attended, by eleven hundred people. The whole of the .day's. proceedings passed off with great eclat,