CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1875, 29 December 1884, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

;BY.4sMdTE\OTEtEQUPH—(JOPYRIOHt!]

:REOT'te's Telegrams,

: '- r: ;-*; :^Aii^;P.ec^beR 29tb. a'.rii',— A' report is to'-liand; that "a" large fonje. of. M&hdites is at' ; a'. point"'only, day's'maroh from Merawi, to ■which placr : Lord;. Wolseleyis now idespatchi&g- Eortr. • :A detachmeijt'.'sixi; .hundred,' alrong; of ■the regiwreiit"leaye3 Korti to-morrow for Merawi,. v,-

' ijeceniber .27.1

•' An ea'rthquake-pf,a seriqqs jch'aracter -has"'Heeri experienced in Andkiiisia';Thq shock was felt over the greater part ot the: province,: and; ihb.; caused men^:d'amago : '.to'Beveral'towi:s'aqd the death of a number of .people,. besides serious, ipjusies - to;.many-' others"' Ashock of- Barthquako: has also been felt hpre'i but it waS slight, and caused;but little damage..' Melbourne, December 37

The intercolonial-cricket match was continued'here to-day, when the New .South Wales team continuedtheir .first innings, which cloaed.for 403, not 3.70, as previously telegraphed. Murdock was the highest scorer with 97/ At the close of . play to-day, 1 the Victorians had scored 143 with' one wicket down,

Melbourne, December 28,

The Mefts at Saint Kilda was destroyed by fire to-day, and twentythree horses perished in the flames, Capetown, December 29.

News is to band from Saint Lucia, a town on the sea coast of northern Zululand, stating that the British flag has been hoisted there, and a proclamation issued announcing the assumption by Great Britain of the ownership of that district,

Madrid, December 26,

Later intelligence from the Province of Andalusia aljowa that the loss of life by the earthquake haß been very heavy.; 150 persons were killed at Albriquerons, and 30 at Arenas del Rey.