CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1675, 2 May 1884, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

[BY ELEOTM(i'!r:ELEaRAPH—COPYRIGHT, . .Reuter's Telegrams, [LONDON, : V;V April 30. Received.'May Ist, 1 p.m— The cargo of mutton on board the steamship Eenstanton from Port Chalmers lias been landed in excellent condition. The first portion was placed iu the market to-day, and realised from S|d to 6d per pound. 'MELBOURNE; April 80. Argument upon the rule nisi in the case of Captain Lockyor v. the Victorian Navigation Board to prohibit i the board from enforcing the suspension of bis certificate, was commenced to Jay but was adjourned until to-morrow, ■;' ADELAIDE, >'-;• ~:;'• ' April 30. According to the estimate of the Adelaide Chamber of Commerce, the quantity, of wheat available for export this season is '300,000 tons, whereof 135,000 tons has already been shipped, and 16,000 is now in course of shipment, . < ■ LONDON, April 30, The P. and O. steamship Sutlcj with tbo remainder of the Australian cricketers, arrived at Plymouth on Monday night, Tho cholera patients on board EM. transport Crocodile, are all recovering, and the troops which the vessel brought have been landed. It is expected that no further cases will now occur, Tbo deaths'are announced of Sir Michael Costa, the eminent composer, aged 74, and of Sir Michael Arthur Bass, M.P. for- East Staffordshire, aged 11. .. CAIRO, . ''-': , . April 29. Emboldened by tho disaffection of the garrison at Berber, and the countenance which he is now rcceivin" from the Nubian rebel. tribes, Osinan Digneh, the representative of the Habdi in tho Eastern Soudan, is now rapidly collecting supplies and men, and threatens that he will advance upon Assouan, Jho' border town of Egypt Proper, near the First Cataract on the Nile, ;; In view of the recent refusal of the British. Government to despatch an expedition into'the Soudan, the threats of tho Arab Chief are causing much uneasiness here,.