AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3589, 1 April 1886, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

(Pbb Elfotbio Telegraph — Copyright. ) (Reuter's Agency,) (Received 10,45 p.m., Maroh 31et.) BIFLE TEAM GOING HOME. Melbourne, March 31. Mr Gillies, the Colonial Treasurer, signified his intention of providing the sum of £1000 towards payment of the expenses entailed m sending a rifle team Home to compete at the forthcoming Wimbledon meeting. THE IBERIA. Adelaide, Maroh 31. The Orient Company's s.s. Iberia arrived this evening with English maik to February 26th. THE UNEMPLOYED. A demonstration was made by the unemployed of this city to-day. The men failing to gain an interview with Mr Downer, proceeded to Government House, where . the mob commenced booting and making other noisy mani* festatious. A deputation waited upon His Excellency Sir William Robinson, and put forward a demand for the immediate assembling of Parliament. A detachment of police succeeded m dispersing the crowd which numbered upwards of 300. (.Received 1.15 p.m., March 31st.) AN ABSCONDING MANAGER. Sydney, March 31. E. B. Holt, the absconding manager of the Bank of New Zealand here, has been charged with misappropriating the sum of fourteen hundred pounds belong" ing to tbe Bant, and the extradition papers necessary for his arrest have been signed by the authorities. (Received 2.50 p.m., March 31st.) SHIPPING. Melbourne, March 31. Sailed this morning — Rotemahana for Mew Zealand. : THE COMMERCIAL BANK. Adelaide, March 31. The proposed amalgamation of the Commercial Bank of South Australia with another Bank has been abandoned. [Received 1.45 p.m., April lst.l Melbourne, March. 31. At the criminal sessions to-day, Alex. Laurence, the late teller of theCity Melbourne Bank, was found guilty of embezzling the funds of the Bank and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment.