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

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8088, 28 September 1894, Page 2

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

Received September 28, at 1.10 a.m. London, September -7. Messrs Dalgety and Co. deelaie a dividend of 8 per cent per annum, ami carry forward LG000 to next year's account. The Admiralty propose to man subsidised cruisers with ollicers and men belonging to th<j naval lescivo, beginning with the Himalaya, Australia, Victoria, Arcadia, two Cunard liners, two White Star liners, and three vessels of the Canadian Pacific Company, eventually the proposal to be extended to twenty vessels. A draft has been oroVied from Alder.shot to icinfoice the British force in Hongkong. Buknos Aykks, September 27. j A professor was placed on trial here on a charge of having poisoned at various times 15 of his friends by introducing cholera germs into frozen ice placed in their wine. The murderer committed suicide. ! Sydnky, Septomber 28. Sailed— Mararoa and Elmgamito (which ; replaces the Tasmania) for Auckland. j A heavy gale visited Lord Howe Island on the 4th instant. Sottlers' houses were j blown down, and great damage was done to j crops. News from Noumea reports that the schoonor Julia, which went ashore at the entrance to the harbor there early in the month, has been floated. The Julia, at the time of the accident, was on a voyage fiom Loyalty Islands to Noumea with a full caigo of copra. MnLBOUiixn, September 27. Mrs Needle has been convicted en a charge of poisoning her husband and children, and bentenced to death, Mrs Veunell lias been arrested on a charge of murdering her children. Mr Bent, ex-Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, declares that the laborer M'Mahon was fully aware of tho nature of the transfer of shares in tho Australian City and Suburban Investment Company when he signed the document. M'M.thon, who is responsible for L'10,000, .seeks to have his name removed from the list of contiibutors, and his application will be heard to-morrow, when Mr Bent will be examined. The new Ministry is as follows : Premier and Treasurer, Hon. George Turner ; Chief Secretary and Minister of Instruction, lion. A. J. Peacock ; Minister of Lands, Trades, nnd Customs, Mr 11. \V. Best ; Minister of Agriculture, Mr J. \V- Tavemor ; Minister of Mines, Mr II. Foster; Attorney-General, Mr J. A. Isaacs ; Solicitor-General, Hon. H. Cuthbert ; Minister of Railways, Hon. II. It. Williams; Minister of Defence, Hon. Sir F. T. Sargood ; Po3tmaster-Genoral, Hon. J. G. Duffy ; honorary member of the Cabinet, Mr K. V. Vale, Hon. William M'Cullough, and Hon. J. M. Pratt. Capetown, September 27. The British maiines landed at Lorenzo Mauiues, in Delagoa Bay, re-embarked on the that the Portuguese protection q( the British Consulate and residents against the KafHrs ia sufljcient. SifANtiiiAi, September 27 • An eye-witness of the recent naval cncouutti between Japanese and Chinese warships, declares that Admiral Ting, of the la,tter countty, disposed his ships in such a vpdgc sljape, witty the flagship as an apex, that hali ot tho Jfeetwete inactive fqr fear of hitting friends. Tho Japanese were thus enabled, he says, to focus tho force of lire on certain vessels. Tho Chinese warship King Yuen had two hundred shot holes in her, chiefly by bullets fired by machine guus, and her armour was pierced to the depth of three inches. The Chen- Yuen h id 120 holes in her bulwarks. It is estimated ,U;:>;t several months will elapso before the ,'feet i?; reyaiml. The Kuan-Ghi stianded after hep .engagement, and was blown up. The Tsy-Vuon awiucnjjally rammed and sank a sister vessel. The lopoct that a Japanese waiship had sunk is reaillrmed. It is believed that the Japanese eeawed the attack owing to tho deficiency of ammunition. A Chinese captain was executed on a charge of cowardice. Tho Europeans residing in Chinese treaty polls are forming a selfdetence coips owing to tho hostility displayed towards them by the populace.