LATE CABLE. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received October 15, at 12.50 a.m.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 7267, 15 October 1891, Page 2

LATE CABLE. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received October 15, at 12.50 a.m.

Sydney, October 14. rjonor/il Booth sailed for Auckland in the steamer Pukuki this evening. Ho was accorded a great send off. Mkluouiini:, October 14. Tho fatal character of the influenz i is creating widespread alarm. Tho Jtov. Mr lligg, President of tho Wesleyan Conference, and Mr A. W. Musgrove, Secretary for Trade and Customs, havo succumbed to tho epidemic. Soveral other prominent citizens died to-day, nnd many m »ro are in u critical condition. Adklaidk, October 14. Information has been received that the expedition organised by Sir Thomas Elder to oxploro Central Australia has ro.ched tho coist of Western Austr.iH i all well. Tho expedition traversed 520 miles without finding water. BiasiMNB, October 14. In tho course of » lengthy speech loI night, Sir Thomas M'llwr.uth roferred to tho difference with tho B.mk of England, and stated that tho Bank attached unnecessary importance to his words, and although ho might have used othor words it could not alter the facts of tho case. The IUnk, ho declared, wiw only blustering, and even now h.id nob fulfilled it« promise to seo the colony out of its difliculty.