CABLE NEWS.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1869, 11 August 1886, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

BEACB MATCHED AGAINST WALLACE BOSS. THE BEACH.GAUDAUK, MATCH. OCEAN PENNY POST. Losloh, August 6. The Imperial Parliament has nojourned until 19th instant. Oaring the interval the Ministers’ re-election* will take place. , ( Ii ia probable that arrangement* will be made whereby Prince Albert Victor will visit Australia next year and perform the opening ceremony at the Sooth Australian Jubilee Exhibition. If such an arrangement should be concluded, his Royal Highness will probably be accompanied by the Duke of Man. cheater, Sir Phillip Couliffe Owen, and Sir Arthur Hodgaon. The War Office has issued orders for three regiments of cavalry to proceed to bunnah in November, in order to strengthen the forces at present in that country and enable them to forcibly suppress the Dacoit disturbances. August 7. A sculling match has been arranged between Wallace Boss, of America, and Beach, of Sydney, for the championship and £looh. Gaudaur has left New York for this country to enter into training for his match with Beach, to take place on the 18th proximo. August 9. The Time#, referring to the proposal to establiah a penny postal service with Anatraiia, considers that the idea is perfectly feasible, provided that the rate of speed demanded of the mail steamer is made slower. r The postal authorities are, however,, to the scheme. THE CBL’ISE OF THE ALBATROSS. NATIVE VILLAGES SHELLED. Stdnet, August 10. The German warship Albatross has returned from a cruise in the Pacific. She reports that she shelled the villages at several islands where Germans had been murdered, and killed and wounded forty native*.

Tbs Government have now under consideration a plan for the celebration of the centenary of New South Wales.