CABLEGRAMS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2185, 5 January 1886, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

(BY ELneilV.o TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT) Hsuter's Telegrams, Memoukne, January 4. The cricket match between the representative Australian eleven and the combined Victoria team was continued on the Melbourne ground to-day, in the presence of a large number of spectators. The Australians, who last night had two wickets down for 69 runs,, continued their innings, Scott and Mcllwraith, the. two not-out men, resuming their. pla.oe'at' tho wipltets. The painiiade a. determined ejikM, Mcllwraith succeeding inplaolng 123 to his credit before being given out l.b,w„ 'while' Scott was caught at" 74. The other principal scorers were Trimble, caught, 41, and' Jaivis, not out, 77. The innings closed for a total of 375. ■""'Lam. The cricket match was'-continued, toduy, when the Yicfcoriaii team went in-for the second innings' and Succeeded; 'scoring 260 runs, 'McShane playjiig' a fine innings for 801 'Th ; e; Australian/team then wjlnt to'tliewickets/requiring 2t to win, which; ijjirnbej; fchby Qbtajncd .witj^t't|a''}osp's aiyioketi jljuj'iyiiining thV gani'e \yjth'te,n, wickets to spare. ''" . ''• '"'' ' In consequence of the wharf laborers' strike, 'the steamers. Nemesis and Sara-; inang have been laid up for the present. Tlje' sjlipqwners, haye resqjyed to' notify shippers thiif. cargq must be delivered jn ships' slings,'. ' It is intended to, introduce laborers'from New Zealand and South Australia, offering them lengthened cantraqfe, and paying their passages to Vjq, torja, ' '' Caiko, January 4, General Stephenson reports that the rebel Arabs are in full flight southward to Dongola. Thoy lost over six hundred men in the recent engagement with the British troops at Gemis, Constantinople, January 4. The Porte has complained to tho British Government of the increase of the British force in Egypt, declaring %£ the despatch qji additional' 'troops to' that CoUiitry is contrary to the terms of the Convention recently .concluded between England and Turkey, Sir William White, British Ambassador here, explained that the situation in Soudan wajj such as to necessitate the despatch of reinfQrp.ernents, It |s_ reported here that Moukhtar Pasha, joint Commissioner to Egypt, sidera it imperative to employ Turkish troop 3 in the paoifioation of the Soudan, Sydney, January 4. Captain Strachan, leader. of tho Ago New Guinea expedition, who left Sydney in August last on a commercial expedition to the Myacussa River District, New Guinea, reports that the expedition proved a completesuccess, and he has been able to establish friendly relations with no less than fourteen native tribes.