LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1557, 5 June 1885, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

«. BT ELECTRIC ._I._GRA!'JI— COPYRIGHT. (PER RRUTRR'fI AGENCY.) Received June 2nd, 1 a.m. Melbourne, 2. The following are the names of the horses entered for the Melbourne Cup:— Arsenal Fish o' Silver Blink Bonny Little John Britisher Liverpool Bastol The Plunger Calma Velocipede Conjecture Tissue Commotion Kit Nuhbles Country Boy Silver Line First Prince Lesbia Grace Darling Forlorn Hope Hawthorn Uncas Hippogriff Studille Hilltop Coriolanus Ironsides Precious Stone Jocular T J rata Kingship Miiisirt**-i King of the Gipsies Heal Jam Madcap Tasman Metal Trenton Mozart Gardenia Off Color Snip Qudies _ Plypton Plausible Louis Prime Minister Bonnie Doon „ Promthew St John Reginald Stornoway Rufus Ebony Sheet-anchor Yellowhammer Silver King Sunny Days Too Too Elwood /ergy Boadirn Vanguards (2) Lucky Hit Impulse Perchance Waverley • Vedette Minerva Duke of Athol ! Clarendo Revenge Free Trade Manchester Oxford July Fryingpau Thunderbolt | Glimmer Andes Quality Pencil Liberty The following are the Sydney entries : — Algerian Remus Anchorite Courtier Brown and Ro**e Nordenfeldt Bureldeha Cerise and Blue Cairo lago Capri Dagobert Cincinnati^ St. Lawrence Despot Percussion First Demon Espiegle First Chester Merlin Garfield Caliban Hazard Archie Hastings Abner Honeydew Moonshee Kathleen Zeno King's Own Cyclops Lord Exeter Matchlock Monte Christo Faro Nepicallina Palarendin Normanby Copra Prince Imperial Lennox Privateer Mylea na Coppaleen The Broker Strond/ri ".'". Warwick Happy Thought Willeroo Cardigan I Wing Uialla \ Astraea Umbra Coronet Kingsdale Eagle Grange Acolyte Clarendon Sloch Larefey Tom Brown The Adelaide entries are as foi low : — Dirk Hatteraick Lantern Dunlop Tarpcia Heleno The Israelite - Hecuba Signor Lord Wilton Gasconade Newßtead Weink Ruby Juranna The Teacher Received June 8, 10 p.m. Melbourne, 8. A most daring robbery was committed this morning aliout 10 o'clock, at the Simpsons road branch of the National Bank of Australasia, which had closed yesterday with no money on the prinises. On the arrival of Humphries, manager of the branch, accompauied hy Bradshaw, his clerk, from the chief es ablisbment, bearing €1000, both were attacked by three masked men, two of whom presented revolvers, whilst the third hvandinhed a crowbar. Humphries and Brudshaw

were overaweu by the suddeness of the 1 attack and the threatening manner of the robbers. Both officials were knocked down and their hands securely strapped behind their backs. The manager's revolver . was then taken from his person, and the robbers decamped with the £1000, leaving the victims lying helpless on the ground. Humphries -and Bradshaw ase subse quently released by a passer by. Information of the rohliery was immediately given to the police. The numbers of tlie notes stolten are not known. Later. Tbe total amount taken by the robbers from the Simpson's road bank officials was £11 55, of which -£955 was notes, £100 gold and the balance silver. No clue has yet been discovered of the identity of the robbers. The numbers of the notes cannot be ascertained Received June 4, 1. a.m. Lovdok, 2. The Homeward Australian mails, Melbourne, April 21, per Peninsular and Oriental Company's Khedive w_fV delivered here today, via Bfindisi. The mails per Messageries Mantimes * steamship . Melbourne, April 25th, were also delivered to-day. Bombay, 2. Telegrams announce that severe earthquakes have visited the district of Cashmere, causing heavy loss of life. Cairo 2. The second battalion. of the .East Surrey regiment* en route ta England from Soudan, have t*«<m disembarked at Alexandria. London, 3. The various despatches which have passed between the New Zealand and Home Governments on the subject of the recent Maori embassy have been published. Among them is a memorandum from the New Zealand Ministry, dated March 28th, which declared that there is nothing m the memorial presented by the embassy which had not been previously satisfactorily answered by the Colonial Government. Received \June 4, 1 p.m. Vk-bovbkb, 4. Further particulars published to-day regarding, the. Simpson's road bank robbery show that the affair was skillfully prepared and carried into execution. * Tha,. robbers effo.ted an entrance into the building through a window, and awaited the arrival of the manager and assistant inside the bank. Tha attack vffisosudden that resiAfiance was impossible on the part of the Victims, win? were gagged and bound hand andf- foot under a table, when they were eventually discovered. The total proceed* of the robbery amount to £1165. Received June 4th, 7.45 p.m. Ijexftox, 8. The race for the Derby was rurt at Epsom to-day, aiid resulted as foi. lows*. — Milton 1 Paradox ... ... ... 2 Royal Hampton ... ... 8 Mj-f.BOUhNB, 4. A "reward of £550 is offered by the National Bank of Australasia for such information as will lead to the arrest and couvtetien .of the men who assaulted and robbed the officials of the Simpson's raad lintuch. •