NEWS BY CABLE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 6696, 3 October 1882, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

BI ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.

EXPECTED DISSOLUTION OF QUEEN'S LAND PARLIAMENT.

ARREST OF A BANK MANAGER.

SENTENCE ON AN AGRARIAN MUR-

DEREK.

ehuter's telegrams.

Received October 2, 1,45 p.m.) Melbourne, Octobers,

Mr William Hill, the Manager of the Colonial Bank of Australasia at Reedy Creek, has been, arrested charged with the robbery which was committed at that branch on 12th August last. Adelaide, October 2.

The revenue of South Australia for September quarter amounted to £525.000, a decrease of £85,250 compared with the corresponding period of 1881. The decrease is mainly due to a falling off in land revenue.

(Received October 2,12.30 p.m.) Sydney, October 2. The New South Wales revenue last quarter amounted to £1,750,000, an increase of £41,500 compared with September quarter, 1881. The principal increases are in Customs and railways. The revenue for the year ended 30th September, was £7,250,000, an increase of £878,000 compared with the corresponding period of 1880-81. Brisbane, October 2.

It is stated that the Government are likely to be in a minority on the Warrego Railway Bill now before the Assembly, and that it is probable a dissolution will take place if the Ministry are defeated.

Received October 2, 1.45 p.m.)

London, September 30. The wool sale to-day was quiet; 6300 bales were catalogued. The money and colonial produce markets are unchanged. Michael Walsh, recently found guilty of an agrarian muider in Ireland, has been sentenced to death.

MR GRAY, M.P., HEAVILY FINED.

DECORATION OF ADMIRAL SEYMOUR BY THE KHEDIVE.

AGE SPECIAL PEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.

(Received October 2, 3.20 p.m.) London, October 1, 3.50 p.m. The fine of £SOO has been imposed on Mr Dwyer Gray, M.P. Midwinter is a passenger for Australia with Murdoch’s team. The railway from Cairo to Alexandria remains open in full working order, and the recent feeling of uneasiness has subsided. The Khedive has decorated Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour.

NEW ZEALAND BEEP IN LONDON.

SUBSTANTIAL PECUNIARY REWARDS TO WOLSBLEY AND SEYMOUR.

TERRIBLE STEAMBOAT DISASTER ON THE MISSISSIPPI.

THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS’ DEPARTURE FROM ENGLAND.

ARGUS SPECIAL PEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.

(Received October 2, 5.10 p.m.)

London, October 1, 3.50 a.ra. Mr Beehag, who was removed from the Potosi suffering from smallpox, is progressing favorably. The frozen beef by the Mataura, although in excellent condition, has only realised 4d per pound, the general complaint regarding it being its excessive fatness.

Colonel Smith, Royal Engineers, succeeds Colonel Pasley, C. B.

It is rumored that the Government will ask Parliament for a grant of £50,000 each to Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour and General Sir Garnet Wolseley. The “ Times” states that Sirßaauchamp Seymour is unwilling to accept the Peerage. Judge Lawson has, in the case of E. Dwyer Gray, M.P., consented to dispense with,the necessity for finding sureties, but insisted on payment of the fine.

The trial of the rebel, leaders has commenced at Cairo. Abdellah’a factotum is a member of the Commission.

Eighty of the Pressburg rioters were bayonetted by the: troops. f

(Received October 2, 5.5 p.m.) Eighteen thousand troops paraded at the Cairo review, and the march past the Khedive occupied two hours. A steamer on the Mississippi has been burned.' The fire broke out in the night, and: as the steamer was crowded with passengers the loss of life was terrible, including many women. Eleven persons were saved. . . . The Australian cricketers received a most cordial farewell, and were accompanied to their steamer by a band of music. Midwinter accompanied them with a view.of settling in Australia. ■ The revenue of the United Kingdom for the year exceeds eighty-six and- a quarter millions.

THE LATEST. TORPEDO EXPLOSION ON BOARD A RUSSIAN IRONCLAD. THIRTY SEAMEN KILLED AND ' MANY WOUNDED, FURTHER DETAILS OF THE MISSISSIPPI DISASTER. EEUTKS'S TELEGRAMS. (Received October 3, 1 a.m.) ; ; Melbourne, October 2. : The following horses have been scratched for the Melbourne Cup race:— Crazy Jane, Fandango, and Lord Clifdeh. St, Petersburg, September 30. The torpedo magazine of the Russian circular ironclad Popoffka, stationed at Odessa, a seaport on the Black Sea, exploded to-day. Thirty of the crew we re killed,, and several others severely injured. New Yoke, September 30. One of the Mississippi river steamers has been burnt. Twenty persona lost their lives by the casualty. Alexandria, October 1. . Baker Pasha arrived at Cairo to-day from Constantinople.