CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 2 November 1881, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

REUTEK'S CABLEGRAMS.

[fbou our own cobbespondent.] Melboubne, November 1 . The race for the Victorian Derby resulted as follows ;— Darabin 1; Santa Claufl 2 ; Commotion 3. Santa Clans made the running all the way, Sommns lying second and third until he reached the distance post, when be collapsed and died away ; Somerset, the favorite, was lost nearly all the way. Darebin was lying in a good position at the distance post, when he went to the front and won comfortably ; time, 2min. 4H seC3> The race for the Melbourne Cup took place to-day, and resulted as follows ;— Zulu ... ... ... 1 Czar 2 Sweetmeat ... ' ... 3 Two clerks in .the employ of Messrs Eronheimer and Co., who absconded last month, having embezzled £8000, were captured yesterday by the police, and are now in custody Batavia. October 31. An epidemic of cholera has broken out at Java and is raging in many parts of the island ; several deaths hove already occurred. ' London, October 17. 3>iotS at Ximerick have, proved very serious; the, police have arrested 30 ring leaders'; 23 were seriously wounded by bayonets. . A disastrous fire occurred at Port Said, Egypt ; sixty buildings were destroyed. There is a very bitter feeling amongst the Irish in America against the British Government, At Philadelphia a demonstration of sympathy was made, anJ Gladstone's effigy was burnt. A Danish steamer on board of which were a large number of immigrants, has been burnt at sea ; five hundred passengers are missing. A great sensation has been created in New York by an attempt to destroy the steamship Bothnea, one of the largest aud latest additions to the Cunard liae ; the circumstances point to a deliberate attempt to fire the ship. A fire broke but on one of the Canard steamers on the passage from Liverpool to America ; she was not far from the English coast when the fire was dis* covered and the captain made for Flint, the nearest sea-port, situate in North Wales; it was found that the fire could not be subdued by ordinary means and the vessel was accordingly scuttled. 24. A great meeting, estimated to have been attended by 40.000 persons took place at Hyde Park yesterday (Sunday) when resolutions were paused protesting against the action of the Government in forcing the Coercion Act in Ireland. The Orient steamer Garonne has arrived safely at Plymouth. Her cargo of Australian frozen mutton is in splendid condition