CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.
Japanese troops have destroyed tho forts at Port Arthur,
Cholera is prevalent in Japan, and 3,090 deaths are reported. A Melbourne message slates that the relief party found the body of Thompson, one of the victims of the El Dorado Aline, behind boulders of clay, which blocked the crosscut. The boy Windon, who was one of the principal witnesses against Gill, has boon arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the jewellery robbery from Stewart Dawson ami Co.’s Sydney premises. It is anticipated that the boy's arrest will lead to the elucidation of the mystery. Leonard Harper leaves for New Zealand in custody on August 8. Counsel for the prosecution states that accused is anxious to return.
An attempt to tow the steamer Argus off the reef near Cape York failed. It is expected that she will float off at spring tides a week hence. Some of the horses on board are dying. A train containing 400 Japanese soldiers, who wore Returning from the war, was derailed between Kobe and Hiroshima. One hundred and forty of those on board were killed.
A special commissioner is on his way to Tahiti to investigate the cause of the trouble between the French authoi ities and Natives of the (Society Islands. He is empowered by the French Government to take part in reorganising the administration of the Society and Windward Isles
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Evening Star, Issue 9771, 30 July 1895, Page 2
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230CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS. Evening Star, Issue 9771, 30 July 1895, Page 2
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