NEWS BY CABLE.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 7776, 7 May 1886, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

Bt Kleweio Trlegeaph,—Copyright. (BPBOIAI TO UNITED PBfcja AsS'dOUTIOR. tibsbbN, May ®ie Queen did not wear her crown or royal robes .at the opening of the Exhibition. Her Majesty was received with cheers dii entering the building, Mr Miirriy, of Sydney, has gained Chancellor , Gainafdrd’s prices for Latin and Greek Vetses. (Received May 6, 7 p.ra.) London, May 5. The appointnlenfc of a successor to Bishop Mddrhoilse has Been deferred for a fortnight. The first meeting of the Conference to take into consideration the question of the protection of cables in time of war, will meet at Paris on the 12tb instant. It is unlikely that Sir Arthur Blytb, representative of South Australia, will be able to be present. The departure of the British-India Steam Navigation Company’s steamer Merkara, for Queensland, via the usual ports, has been delayed, in consequence of one of her piston-rods having broken. The Queen has accepted a number of photographs of New Guinea by Lindt and Company* (RKDTtB’S fKtSdRAjtS.) blind, May 3. Advices, frodd the frontier stdte that the Mahdist Arabs are massing in large numbers in the vicinity of Dongola. Calcutta, May 5. A force of Sikh police, consisting of 2000 men, has started for Mandalay. In spite of the vigilance of the British troops, another immense fire hits occilrred ill that city-. London, May 5. Mr B. C. Baker leaves for South Australia to-morrow. The tenders which ho has received fdr the Federal mail service have not been made public. New Tons, May 5,

The labor riots in Chicago have now assumed a very serious phase. A meeting of Socialists, numbering fully 15,000 men, was held yesterday in that city. The police authorities ordered the crowd to“dia£)Brsß, but the Socialists offered it stubborn resistance, throwing explosive bombs among the police, killing five* and wounding many others. The police then fired upon the rioters) fifty of whom were shot dead, and a large number wounded. The greatest consternation prevails in the City* business being to a large extent at a standstill.