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North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8002, 15 June 1894, Page 2

LATE CABLE. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Rooolved Juno 15, at 1 10 a.m. Sydxbv, June 14! Sir G. R. Dibbs' letter to Sir J. Patterson has boon published, He proposes ona viceroy for the two colonies, one Parliament! with two Chambers, and one tariff and exciso, joint debt, railway management, land revenue, land law, defence, and postal and telegraphic administration. The provincial governments are to have wide local powers* The surplus revenue of the supreme govern* moat is to bo apportioned to the provinces partly on a population basis and partly on an occupied mileage area. The basis of certain departments of the public service are to be removed from political influence, and have their headquarter*, lomo ia Sydney and some in Melbourne, One high commissioner's establishment in London is suggested, and one (Supremo Court. The title of the federation ia to be the United Colonies until tho others come in, when ifa should be the Dominion of Australia or United Australia. Under the Common Wealth Bill, drafted by the Federation Convention, an additional charge of LI ,325,000 per annum would have been in* volvod, but effective unity on the other hand could save the two eoloniea at leasb L 1,440,000 by reduced interest on the debt| a gain in railway administration, and a iav« ing it other departments. M'Novin, one of tho proprietors of Justice, who was sentenced to a month fop libel on Mr Slattory, has been released afa the instance of tho Minister himself, as an act of mercy Tho equity suit of M'Namara v. the Grown, claiming L 13.000 damages to pro* perty through tho Government worki, is one of the longest suits ainoe the Equity Acb was passed in 1880. It lasted 27 days, and roanlted in a a verdict for plaintiff foe LlO.OOO and costs.

London, June 14. The Duke of Devonshire, in a remarkable speech, implied that the democratic budgets would compel laud owners to mako great changes in their expenditure, and close the great country houaea like hia own seat at Chats worth. Several Lords and members of the House of Commons are signing a memorial urging the Government to decline to subsidise tha Canadian and Australian steameri and tho Pacific cable unleaa the colonies share in tho cost of the Imperial navy. Tho National Mortgage and Agency Corn* Sany of Now Zealand declaro an interim ividend of cent,

2\ per Hono Kong, June 14. The Corean rebels have captured tho ea of Seoul,

pital Bangkok, June 14. Tho second trial of Phrayot resulted iq

Mi being sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. Capetown, June 14. The insurgent chief Makbach has fled to the Limpopo River, and the Boers nro adT»nciog.

Paris, Juno 14. The French declare that Abdul K?,u owed hit proclamation at Sultan of Morocco to Engluh influence.