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

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8086, 26 September 1894, Page 2

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

Received September 26, at 1 a.m. Sydney, September 25, Hailed — Rotomahana, for Auckland. News from the New Hebrides showq that the steamer Crockon towed H.M S. Ringa. rooma off alone (with the assistance of the cruiser's own engine). Tlio French warship Duchflault was disabled at the time, owing to her 1 having fouled her cable. A private letter from the New Hebrides states that there is a confident feeling union!; tho French residents that Frauee will shortly annex the group. It is posaiblo tint the foundation for the feeling lies in the fact that «v certain section of Parisian newspapers recently asserted that Great Britain was by no means adverse to with* drawing from tho dual control, providing the islands aio not used for convict purposes- On the other hand the British community asserts that the feeling of tho Frenchmen is merely assumed. A shearing outiage is reported from the Bourkc district, and it is alleged that « party of men destroyed the fodder sheds by firing them, and also destroyed artesian piping. A poise of police have been despatched in pursuit of tho perpetrators. Capetown', September 25. Nows has been received that large bodies of Kaffirs threaten Lorenz Marquis, a Portuguese town on the north aido of DclagoA Bay, Sofia, September 25. The elections lnvc resulted in favor of tho Government by a largo majority. Tho Russophilea were heavily defeated. London, September 25. The excise oHiceti have recovered penalties from shopkeepers helling Taimantan eucalyptus pantiles without a revenue stamp affixed. Arrived— Hurunui, barque, from Lyttolton (June 'SO). Nkw York, September 25. Arrived— Edward L. Maybcrry, barquoj from Auckland (June 11). Shanghai, September 25* Thirty-eight thousand Chinese troops arcin an entrenched position in Yalu, but aro badly armed. A British steamer has Undid a cargo o! munitions of war f n Taku. St. Pjvrniwuuiu;, September 25. A widespread Polwh plot Iiah beon din. covered throughout RvissU, and mauy arrests have been mado in Odessa. It is reported that the Chineso looted a station on the Usuri section of the Siberian railway, aud murdered eight Russians. Cairo, September 25 Ali Cherif Pasha, has confessed to complicity in purchasing Soudanese skvo girls, and at a court martnl pleaded for mercy. Vienna, September 25. Three women have been murdered in th o Tyrol during the week, and their bodic n mutilated in the satne manner a«s thoso at* tributcd to *♦ Jack the Ripper ' in Londoo