NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2554, 22 March 1887, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

.■l,'. >■■;'(:■ ■.'' '"''."¥ '--, "'' ;, (BY ELEOTBW TELEQBAPH—OOPYBIGHT) ; ReOTER'b TELEQBAMB. \ Melbourne, March?!,"; The Argus to-day expresses a hope' that the Ministry will accord its 'sup.*: port to Mr Twopenny's scheme for a

Polynesian Exhibition in .Auckland, ; and;styles Mtf; Twopenny the "real 'founder of the Indian and Colonial; ,< Exhibition^'.;, ' ""£iO ::;: ;! p, : Melbourne, Marcll2L'' I' ■'The oriokotmatch, Smokers.versus ;NOn-Smokers was resumed to-day. ,The former, who on Saturday t hadlost ithree wickets for 267 runs;: continued tKetinnings, T:, wlii(sbi'closed'; for - 'sso.. .Befog.to.a minority oi 447ruH8,thQy Md'toMow.on, and lost five rockets •for 185.runs wEen stump's vimiimx. 'inniflgflr '' Mjer ■] qontnbuted" lIS, •.: In the second Bates.made. 64..,., ,•.:,:.; ; , „,,.. r "-■ ■'- London, March2l.^ Mr John Kynaston Cross, who was political .Secretary to the India Office in the late Ministry, has committed suicide while in a state of ill-health, Adelaide, March 21. .. The first batch of returns for the general elections ihow a majority; for those candidates who favor a ; Proteo-' tionist revision of the tariffs. ' Beblin, March 20. H.R.H. the Priuce of Wales has arrived in this city from London* St. Petebbburg, March 20. Wholesale .arrests of persons implicated in ;the late-plot against • ,the mi oftlio Czar continue •to bo mado in the city. It is rumored that several officers have been secretly executed. Brisbane, March 21. A board belonging to .the sohooner Mary King of New Zealand, whiob foundered on the Tasmanian coast in 1888, has been found near Mackay.