NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2259, 1 April 1886, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

(BY ELECIIUO TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT ReuTEr's TELEGRAMS, Melbourne, March 31, Mr Gillies, Colonial Treasurer, Imb signified his intention of providing a sum of £IOOO towards payment of expenses, entailed |n sending a rifle team Hpme to compete in the forthcoming Wimbledon meeting. Adelaide, March 31, Thp Orient's Iberia arrived tbisj evening with the English majls of February 2(j. A demonstration wap m.adp by the unemployed in this city tq-day, The men failing to gain an interview with Mr Downer, proceeded to the Government House, where the mob oommenoed hooting and making other noisy manifestations, A deputation that, waited on Sir "William Robinson put forward a demand for the immediate assembling of Parliament. A detachment of police succeeded in dispersing the crowd which numbered upwards of three hundred persons. London, March 30. Consols further decline £IOO 5s New Zealand securities five per cent, £lO2, four and a half per cent £lOl 10s. Market rate reduced, tq $] 103 per oent, now 10s below Bank rate, Wool—The tone of the market is generally dull, To-day's 'catalogue comprised 10,8000 halos, Breadsfcuffs and tallow unchadged. Melbourne, March 31. •At the criminal sessions to-day, Alexander Lawrence, late teller in the City of Melbourne Bank, was found guilty of embezzling the funds of. the Bank, and was sentenced tq two years' imprisonment, ' London, March 31, In the House of Commons Jast night a motion was brought by Mr Henneker Heaton in favor of a universal penny postage throughout the British dominions, and was rejected by a large majority, Brussels, March 31, The rioting at Charleroi District'has subsided. Orderly feeling has been restored among the workmen.