CABLEGRAMS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2058, 3 August 1885, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

(by elecw.c telegraph—copyright liliUTElt's TELEGRAMS. London, August 1. Tlie tenders for the residue of the Wellington Manawatu Railway Company's Loan amounting to £160,000 at 5 per cent, with a minimum of 98, will be opened on the 7th inst; The Bill providing for the naturalization as an English subject of Prince Henry of Battenberg, the husband-elect of the Princess Beatrice, has been passed by both Houses of Parliament. •Sir Michael Hicks Beach, the representative of the Government in the House of Commons, has assured Mr Murray Smith, Agent-General for Victoria, that the Colonial Federation Enabling Bill will be passed during the present session of Parliament. Ottawa, August 1. Louis Riel, the half-breed insurgent, who was taken prisoner by General Middleton, has been examined by medical experts, who have pronounced him insane. Melbourne, August, 1. Silvermine has been scratched for the Melbourne Cup. Brisbane, August 1. The insurances on Messrs Morshead's stores, which were burnt yesterday, are as follows; Commercial Union, LIO,OOO. Queen, L 6000; Alliance and British,' LSOOO each; Royal 4000; Northern and Union of New Zealand, L3OOO each; Colonial Mutual and New Zealand, L2OOO each, Melbourne, August 1, The wrestling match for the Championship of the world took place to-night at the Exhibition Building, when Professor Miller, of Melbourne, defeated Donald Dinnie, the well-known Scottish athlete,