CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4917, 4 January 1895, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

[ United Pms Association.] (By Electric Tekgrtipli.-Copi/rhjlit,) Crickethe Second Test Match, Another win tor the Englishmen. (Received January 3, 3 p.m. Meliioxkxh, January 3. The Englishmen won by 94 runs. The following are the additional scores : Australians—Second Innings. Iredale, b Peel 68 Turner, not out 26

Total second innings ... 333 Total first innings ~,123 Grand Total 456 The grand total of the Englishmen's two innings was 550. (Received January 4,10 45 a.m.) AddliAidk, January 4, The Cricket Association is asking the Englishmen to allow the wicket for tbo match here next week to be protected against the weather. Moses will probably be included in the next Australian team.

Trot!, of Victoria, is a certainty, aud Worrell and Harry, from the same colony, are also probables. Coningham will be omitted, The Soudan. Souakiji, January 2, The Italians at Kassala are believed to be in.a critical condition. Some 15,000 Dervishes, mostly well-armed, are reported to be within ten hours' march of the place. The only troops available for its defence are one battalion of natives. Latest Australian News.

(Received January 4, 10.45 a.m. Melbourne, January 4, Parliament lias resumed. The Council lias received a largo number of petitions requesting it to reject the Land Tax Bill. Adelaide, January 4, Admiral Bridge, the new naval commander, has arrived. Sydney, Jan, 4. A local firm has received an order for a quantity of N.S.W. ornamental lmrdwood timber. The order is tbo result of samples forwarded to Capetown. Australian Labor Troubles. (Received Jan. 4,10.45). Sydney, Jan. 4. In the southern districts, the nonUnionists formed a lodge, and the Secretary, Treasurer, and two members of the new organisation have now been dismissed from their employment. The annual report of the Labour Bureau deplores the gloomy outlook. Fully 2000 men are out of work at Newcastle, with the prospects of a goneral strike looming in the distance. Tho report urges the Government to proceed without delay in the construction of public works,

The Gorean War, [Received January 4,12,35 a.m.] London, January 3. Reports from Shanghai state that China does not iutend to cede an inch of territory to Japan. Owing to tho lack of funds, China is unable to reorganise her army at present, but she hopes before long to be able to recapture Port Arthur. The negotiations for peace have been postponed until the arrival of Mr John Foster, who is on his way from America to Tokio to assist the Chineso Envoys in arranging the terms of settlement. It is thought that with Mr Foster's assistance thero is less likelihood of the negotiations resulting in failure,