LATEST CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4915, 2 January 1895, Page 3

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

[ United Press Association.] \ (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) The Englishmen in Australia. (Recoived Dec. 31, 445 p.m.) Melbourne, December 31. At lunch one wicket was down for 78; Ward, not ont 28; Stoddart, not out, 35. The Second Test Match. Mewiodrne, January 1. The following are tho ecorcß : Englishmen.—2nd innings, ! McLaren, b Tumor 15* Ward, b Turner 41 Brown, c Jarvis, b Bruce ,„ 37 Brockwell, b Turner 21 Stoddart, b Giffen 173 Pcel.st Jarvis, b Giffon ... 53 Ford, c Trait, b Giffen ... 21 i Briggs, 1.b.w., b GiUcn ... 31 ! Lockwood, not out ... ... 33 ! Phillipson, b Giffen 301 Richardson, c Gregory, b Giffen 11 j No balls 31 Leg Byes 2 Bye l Total second innings ~, 475 Total first innings ... 75 Grand Total 550 Giffen took six wickets for 155, Turner three for 99, Bruce one for 21, Lyons none for 3, Trott none for 60, Coninghani none for 59, Trumblo none for 72, with throe no balls. Australians.—2iidinniugs. Bruce, not out 43 Trott, not out 43 Total for no wickets „. 86 Total of first innings ... 123 209 The Australians have yet to maio 342 to win. Close on 15,000 people paid for admission to-day, £987 being taken at the gates. [Received January 2,0.30 p.m.] Melbourne, January 2. A hot north wind is blowing Hub morning with clouds of dust. Stoddart's innings was almost faultless. He gave one possible chance to Jarvis at the wickets, when at 113, and ten runs later played one in dangerous proximity to Trumble in the slip. Giffen had a hundred runs scored off him before taking a wicket. Several of the Englishmen declared Gregory's catch, which dismissed Richardson, was the finest they ever witnessed. The match is considered to be played under perfectly oven conditions.

latest 1 Australian. (Received January 2,21 a.m.) Sydney, January 2. Owing to private business, Mr Slattery, a former member of Dibbs' Ministry, has resigned his seat in the Legislative Assembly Two friends named Curran and Murphy, during the New Year's festivities at Temora quarrelled, and subsequently Murphy was found dead, having apparently been killed with a tomahawk. Ourran has boen arrested on suspicion of boin? ike : perpetrator of the deed. Newcastle, January 2, Strong feeling prevails that the colliery owners should have allowed the Wallsend miners to cavil at their l places in the mines, as this question is not affected in the present difficulties. To abolish cavilling means the destruction of the possibility of a man who for one quarter has been working in a difficult place, obtaining a place next to a cavil where the coal could be got much casior. The non-Unionists from Gorta mines have visited town in order to protect themselves from molestation, came armed with revolvers. An angry demonstration was made against them by the assembled miuers, and on the advice of the police, the Freemen retired.and what i appeared likely.to be a riot was avoided. Adelaide, Jan. 2. Tho single railway Commissioner will be assisted by aßoard of Advice, consisting of enginer-in-chiof, loco-motive-engineer, and traffic-superin-tondant. In the event of the Board differing from the commissioner the matter in dispute will bo referred to the Commissioner of Public Works. It is understood that the present Chau'man of Commissioners or one of his colleagues will be appointed Commissioner,