CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1676, 3 May 1884, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIdIIT. Keoter's Telegrams, ' SYDNEf, , . . Friday. - Received May 2,1.20 p.m.—ln the Legislative Assembly last'.night, the vote for immigration was reduced to £50,000, owing to the present dearth of employment in New South "Wales, . LONDON, May 1, Received May 2,10,50 a.m.—ln the House of Commons last night a Bill tti legalise the cremation of dead bodies was rejected after a debate thereon, ' TORONTO (CANADA), :... April 30. A plot to destroy the Parliament Building of this city has been frustrated. Several powerful dynamite cartridges, with, fuses attached, ready for firing, were discovered this evening in the basement of the building, and were promptly destroyed, The affair lias caused- intense .excitement here. No clue to the guilty parties has yet been obtained. . ' . LONDON, April 30. Consols remain at 101$, and New Zealand securities at last quotations. There are no- changes to report in the market for colonial breadstuff's and tallow: The catalogue at to-day's wool sale comprised 11,300 bales. A good demand was experienced. MELBOURNE, May 1. Tho application of Captain Lockyear, of the steamship Adelaide, for a mandamus to prohibit the Victorian Navigation Board from enforcing the suspension of his certificate, was heard to-day, but was ultimately refused. It is probable that Captain Lockyear 'will appeal'against the" election of' the Court. LONDON, May 1; Arrangements have been mado with the Australian team for a match at Birmingham on the 26th instant and following days, \ The French Government has definitely notified its acceptance of the proposal that a conference on the state off affairs in Fgypt should be held, but without waiving its demand that the whole Egyptian question shall be open ' for discussion. "• The marriage of Prince Louis of

Battenburg with the Princess Victoria of Hesse-Darmstadt, 'was celebrated; yesterday; at Darmstadt with great ceremony.- Her Majesty Queen Victoria,the . Prince ' rind Princess of W&les/aiid the;tiei'man Crown Prince and Prinfccsswere present. The Queon did hot attend the banquet which followed, on- account of tho recent death of tho Duke of Albany. Sir H, B, Loch, the nowly-appointed Gpyernor of Victoria, has decided to sail on'tho 24tli inst. 7

. CAIRO,: / ; ' ''v'i, ■ ' -April 30, Despatches have been received from the Governor of Berber,.stating that be still retains command of the town with a small garrison,; but that assistance is immediately and urgently needed. . w. SYDNEY".

May 1, Arrived— steamship Hauroto, from Wellington,^ The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company has secured handsome warehouses in^ v Brisbanestreet for the wool business. - ... BRISBANE, , . May L. The British IndianCqmpany's steamship Almora, from London, via the East Indies, reports that one death, from-smallpox occurred during the voyage, but that no further cases .have since occurred, '''' Telegrams from Havana, the capital of Cuba, states that a terrible catastrophe has occurred there, The powder magazine at the arsenal exploded, and the shock also caused tho' gasometer'in the neighborhood to blow up.' Immense damage was done to adjoining buildings,'and a number of persons in the vicinity lost their, lives. ■- MELBOURNE, May. 2. ■ Received May 2, 2.30 p.m.—Arrived, yesterday—Waihora, from Blnff. Captain Lockyer continues in command of the steamship Adelaide on strength' of his certificate as second mate, .The Victoria Navigation Board communicated with the Adelaide Marine Board regarding . Captavi Lockyear, but the Adelaide : Board declined to interfere. LONDON, ' , .;- ■ , May 1. In the House of Commons to-day, the Hon Mr Gladstone announced that the French Government has accepted the proposal to hold a Conference on Egyptian affairs, but required that there should be an exchange ot views between England and France beforehand as to the subjects to be discussed. Tho Hon Mr Gladstone further stated t'nat the Turkish Government has not yet replied to the' proposal, but that other European Governments have accepted the same.The Rev Sydney Liuton, the newlyappointed .'-Bishop of Riverha, New South Wales, : was consecrated to-day at St. Paul's Cathedral with the customary ceremony. ■

. A man named Macdonnell, who is known to be the centre of the present Fenian organisation, Las been arrested at Wednesbury; Staffordshire.-