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

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8081, 20 September 1894, Page 2

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

Received September 20, at 0.45 a.m. Londox, (September 19. Tlio report of the Free Labor .Society do« chiiei that the membership of Trader Unions is decreasing. Two thouvvud 3ca» men ate lettered as freemen. The Times estimates it eost sixteen ppund3 e.teli to land the Maori King's cattlo

•xohiBivo of insurance, while they only routined L1G Ms. To mnko fcho fcmifFio pay it would bo necessary to send fivo to eight hundred in order to reduce the freight and cost of fodder. It is ubsolutoly useless to send cattle in store condition. The Amphion has been despatched to Casablanca to demand reparation for tho outrage on Consuls. Mr Gladstone, in a letter, expresses himwolf in favor of the .State celling alcohol for public profit as against local option. Tho quantity of wool available for noxt Beriefl ia 285,000 hales, Tho present prices, compared with July raten for merino and crossbred, is par to 5 per cent highor. Sydnky, .September 19. Tho Legislative Council rejected tho j Navigation Act Amendment Bill by 17 to Mkmjouknm, September 19. I'arty feeling is running high in cornice tion with tho elections to-morrow, and many close contests are anticipated. BmsiiANK, .Soptombor 19. Th« Council pasoed tho Pcaco Preservation Bill without amendment. Mr Glasscy has given notice of motion for the appointment of a special commission to investigate tho charges by the Hon. Mr tl'ozor that certain labor members and othor/j connected with tho Auntrulian labor fodcration created Htrikea, and incited perBonn to crime. Morstone Downa woolshcd has been deutroyed by firo. Threo hundred sheep perished, Shanghai, September 19. Upon receipt of the news of the Chinese defeat at 1'okin there was a great outcry against Li Hung Chang, who was deprived by the Emperor of hia last peacock's feather. Tho arrivals of Chineao reinforcements in Coren, reported in August, were merely official ficoionij. Bkmjkapk, Soptomber 19. Twenty-two Servian soldiers were killed In an encounter with brigands.