CABLEGRAMS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2227, 23 February 1886, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

(BY RLWWG TKLKGIUVH—COPYRIGHT) i Keutbr'b Tkleqiums. Loudon, February 22. .: A mass meeting of the unemployed was held in Hyde Park to-day, under the .auspices of the socalist organization. There was an enormous attendance, fully forty thousand persons being present, speeches were made condemning the proposal to establish relief works for the unemployed. Burns, the leading socialist, against whom proceedings have been t/ikeji in cpniiectipn with tjio late disturbances in the course of hjs adfjress,' prp : dieted bloodshed would ensue unless the .'social reforms asked for would be granted, There was a largo force of police on the ground, and in the neighborhood, but their services were not callod into requisition, as tho assembly in an orderly manner. f His Royal Highness the Prince of has loft town for Cannes in tho south of France,

; ; The Ruapehu arrived to-day from Wellington with her meat cargo in good condition.

Melbourne, Februa-y22. b Prisoners charged. wjtf> tI»Q Qqllinewppd bank, rpbbijry lyei-p fcrjeft to-day at" tjje Criminal sessions. Bealo, who was the ■.leading spirit in the attempt, was sentem ood to eight years imprisonment, while his accomplices, Mumy and. Hopkins 'received six years each. Tho other .prisoners were acquitted by the Jury It Adelaide, February 22. f{ Tho Mcssagories Maratimes' Yarra 'arrived this morning. Sho brings Mauritius advices to fifth instant, Under. that date Messrs Ireland Eraser and Co. .report the sugar harvest operations are nearly finished. Tho months' engagements for JNew Zealand are Auckland, 600 tons, aii'd''\Velllng(.d i n ($() tflnj). ■fipightp tp ■Australia, IBs to 16s pov ton, ipef %w Zealand 2Bs jexchange GO days. T' le stock of sugar is 49,000 tons, experts to ■New Zealand this year 5,000 tons,