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Dunstan Times, Issue 1819, 18 June 1897, Page 6

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CAPE TOWN, Junk 10. Mr C. Rhodes has left Cape Town for SAN FRANCISCO, June 10. The Japanese Consul at Honolulu has modified his proposals in reference to the admission of Japanese immigrants to Hawaii. Japan has protested against tho exclusion of Japanese immigrants from British Columbia. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 9. The foreign Embassies have referred tho question of the abolition of capitulations and the amount of the indemnity to be paid to Turkey by Greece to a committee of exports. Tewfik Pasha has protested to the Ambassadors against the opposition of the Powers towards tho retention of Thessaly by Turkey. He declares that a strong national feeling in Turkey pi events the evacuation of that province. PARIS, June 10.

The Suez Canal Company have decided to erect a statue at Port Said to the late M. Ferdinand Do Lesseps, projector of the canal. The statue will cost a quarter of a million francs. BERLIN, June 9. A powder factory in Bavaria was destroyed by a flash of lightning, which exploded 11,0001b of powder that was stored in the building. The force of the shock' completely shattered eleven houses in tho vicinity. NEW YORK, June 9. Ten millionaire directors of the American Cigaretto Trust are being tried here on charges of attempting to compel dealers to sell trust goods only. LONDON, June 10. A olerk in the employ of the National Bank of Ireland was robbed of £5,000 at the Limerick railway station. A tourist has since been arrested at Sallins, in Kildare, on suspicion. When he was searched he was found to have in his possession a similar amount to that stolen from the clerk. In the course of an interview Sir G. Turner, Premier of Victoria, said he did not consider that the question of Freetrade and Protection would be made an urgent one at the next General Election in Victoria. The colony had gone as far as it was likely to go. The Freetraders would try and force the question of FrcQ.trade, but he did not expect that they would meet with general support, as public interest in the question was decidedly lessening. As a result of a consultation with Sir Andrew Clarke, Agent-General for Victoria, Sir G, Turner has decided to remove the entire Victorian Agency-General from Victoria Chambers, Westminster, to prominent premises in the City. It is intended to extend the scope of the Agency by exhibiting the products and pushing the interests of the colony generally. The Hon. C. G. Kingston is obtaining data for tho guidance of the South Australian Cabinet in regard to the construction of a trans-continental railway to Port Darwin.

Sir John Forrest (West Australia) and Mr Kingston (South Australia) are the guests of the Mayor of Leeds (Sir James Kitson, Bart., M.P.). Mr Ernest Hooley, the millionaire, despatched by the mail which left London on May 21 particulars of a great scheme he had formed for the purchase of all meat-freezing companies in Australasia. It is expected that Mr Edmund Barton, M.L.C., of Sydney, who has been in the forefront of the Federation movement, will be included in the honors conferred in connection with the commemoration of the Queen's Jubilee. Arrangements are in progress for a conference between the colonial Premiers and the Right Hon. J. Chamberlain, Secretary for the Colonies.

The Queensland troops to take part in the celebrations have arrived. ST. PETERSBURG, June 10.

A terrible discovery of religious fanaticism has been made among the Beguui, a sect in the village of Terufka, in Caucasia. According to the particulars to hand a band of twenty-five persons, including five women and four children, voluntarily submitted to being buried alive, and wore entombed in the wall of a cellar. The rest were interred in a garden. Kovaleff, chief agent of the sect, who buried his mother, wife, and two children, has been arrested on a charge of causing their deaths.

It is evident, from the manner hi which the bodies were buried, that the victims offered no resistance.

ADELAIDE, June 11. The mystery surrounding the fate of Jones and "Weils, the two missing members of the Calvert exploring expedition, has at last been cleared up by the receipt of a telegram from Mr Margery, leader of the relief expedition, announcing the discovery of the bodies. By handcuffing the Natives and using strong measures tL« relief expedition eventually forced them to lead them to the place where the remains were. The two men perished while heading for the Joanna Springs. The bodies of Jones and Wells were found near a well close to the track made by Margery's party when out exploring in April last. Jones's body was under a tree, covered with earth ; that of Wells in a tent. Evidently Jones had died first. Wells partially buried him, and then returned to a tent to await death. The Natives had stolen all the firearms and valuables ; but some personal belongings, including Jones's journal, were found. From the journal it was gathered that owing to want of water and feed and the terrible heat one of the camels had died, and the others had strayed. The men were too weak to follow them. The last entry in the journal was that both were unwell and very weak, and that only two quarts of water were left. The entry plaintively adds that the men did not expect to last much longer. Evidences point to the fact that they reached early in November the spot where they perished. The bodies are being forwarded to Adelaide for burial.

The rescue party had a terrible experience with the heat and want of food. The camels at times were several days without water.

Parliament was opened by Commission to-day. After the newly-elected members of the Council had been sworn the Governor attended' and delivered his Speech. The Government proposals include tho erection of an art gallery to accommodate the present national collection and others to be bought with the £20,000 bequeathed by the late Sir T. Elder for the purpose. Law Reform and Early Closing Bills are also promised. Sir R. C. Baker was re-elected President of the Council,

MELBOURNE, June 11. Two brothers named Braun were crushed to death by a fall of earth in a mine at Woolshed Flat. A cable has been despatched to the Committee of the London slums jubilee dinners, who are asked to take delivery of 10,000 carcasses of mutton and 400 quarters of beef from the s.s. Gulf of Siam, which has just arrived at London. To this have to be added tho Townsvillo and Brisbane donations, which are equal to 5,000 carcasses of mutton BRISBANE, Junk 11. A report compiled by the Weather Bureau shows that in many parts of the colony the position was its bad as the great drought of 1883. Tho scattered districts, however, escaped, as water and feed were fairly plentiful there. SYDNEY, June 11. News has been received of the death in London, where he went for the benefit of his health, of Captain John Hall, marine surveyor for tho Sydney Underwriters' Association. The deceased was well known in shipping circles. WELLINGTON, June 11. All the colonial acclimatisation societies, with tho exception of Canterbury, have adopted the suggestion of the Wellington society for a conference duriug the first week of the next session of Parliament to arrange a uniform opening of the shooting and fishing season*, fixing gun licenses, etc. TIMARU, June 11. James Young, late storekeeper at Fairlie, was to-day committed for trial on six informations for breaches of the Bankruptcy Act m'z , failing to keep proper books, obtaining ere lit by false pretences, transferring £SOO of assets with intent to dtfraud his creditors, making improper payments of £SOO, obtaining credit by a false statement of his position, and making an illegal preferential payment. -The Deputy-Assignee was the informant.