NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2560, 30 March 1887, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

(BY RLECII'.O TULEQIIAI'U—COPYRIQUTJ 1 REtir'Eß'B Teieqbajisv '' ' Melbouiinii,'March 29.' - The Committed of the Royal Geographical Society ban ..resolved to ask Sir Graham Berry, Ageut-Genaral for Victoria, to invito offers frotrt ship. ,fpv a,whaling .expedition io HlO oii the lines previously appvov¥d-nn«l to' solicit th; advice of Sir Leopold M'Clintock, Sir George Fares, and others, as to the conduct- of tho same, • ■ _ Sydney, March 29; . .. The Colonial Treasurer will- deliver Jiif'Budgot Statenient tomorrow. - ■ A meeting-to ifgauise relief "for tho saffiJCP.%, thoßulli colliery disaster will be held at an early date. ' £3OOO have already - been raised for this, purpose. ■ .Rio de Janeiro, March 28.. Arrived last evening—Shaw-Savill ; steamship Tainni, en route for Plymouth. Her meat cargo is in a satisfactory condition. Hobart, March 29, A new Ministry has been formed as follows i—Mr Fygli, Premier and' Chief Secretary; Mr Clark, Attorney General; Mr Braddon, Minister. of Lands and Works; Mr Bird, Colonial .Treasurer, London, March 20, In the House of Lords last night, Lord Onslow, Under - Secretary of State for the Colonies, replying to a question stated that he hoped that the new rules regarding the employment of pensioned officers of the British Army would give the colonial defence forces the advantages of tried officers. Her Majesty's Government were anxious to assist the colonies in or-, ganising their own defences. London, March 28. A'general meeting'of the Australian delegates to the Imperial Conference will take place during tho present week to arrange preliminaries.