LATE CABLE.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8710, 26 October 1896, Page 2

LATE CABLE.

By Electric Temgraph.-OopyrigHt.

(PER PKEBS ASSOCIATION.)

Received October 25, at 7 p.m. Berlin, October 24. Lieutenant Brusewitz, who killed an engineer m a cafe at Carlsruhe, has been sentenced to four yea s imprisonment' m a fortress, and dismissed from tho army. London, October 24. At auction 169 bales of New Zealand hemp were bought m.

Experts pronounce the shipment of Fiji tobacc • excellent, and an attempt is to be made to place it on the Cantineutal market.

The Australian racehorses Emmalea and Acmena have arrived m splendid condition.

The Standard announces that Greab Britain has agreed to arbibrite with Venezuela more liberally, though not unreservedly.

Sun-Vet-Sun states that two Chinese officials accosted him outside the Legation, and coerced him to enter, and they then locked him up on the top storey. Sir H. Macartney, he said, told him the Legation intended to send him to China, and the Embassy officially informed him that it would not have to apply for his extradition. Sir H. Macartney said he would be bound m a bag and put m a box on a vessel, which would carry him to China, where he would be executed. If smuggling failed, he would be killed m the Legation, embalmed, and sent to Pekin for execution, where, though dead, the form of execution would be again gone through. Fearing that attempts were being made to poison him, Sun-Vet-Sun nearly starved himself. Various attempts by him to bribe the servants to inform his friends of his position were repeatedly frustrated. He finally succeeded, and by the publicity given to the case m the newspapers secured his release. British officials regard the affair as a monstrous abuse of the privileges of the Legation. Sir H. Macartney considers that under the circumstances he was justified m detaining the visitor, bub declares there was no intention to torture him. It has since transpired that Sun-Vet-Sun has been dogged for two years. Sydney, October 25. An important proposal has been made to the Minister fur Lmds by a gentleman ■ with a practical knowledge of wheatgrowing on a large scale. He is an American, and hns applied for forty thousand acres of abandoned ptstoral holdings m the mallee district, and offers a fair rent, and to give a substantial guarantee to put five thousand acres under wheat m three yeirs, ten thousand m five years, and twenty thousand m ten years. Ho wM hmd over the whole of the land, excep ing 2560 acres, to the Crown thoroughly cleared and fenced at the expiration of twenty-eight years, receiving tenant right only if allowed improvements, and waiving such right for c earing or scrubbing. Received October 26, at 1 10 a.m. Oairo, October 24. Lord Cromer states that the . primary object of the Soudan war was the relief of Italy, wh J ch has been achieved, and Gordon is already half avenged. Rome, October 24. The civil marriage of the Prince of Naples and Princess Helene was celebrated at the Quirinal. The Abbot of Pissicolls officiated ab the church of St. Marie. The utmost enthusiasm was shown, and King Humbert has granted an amnesty to many prisoners m honor of his son's marriage. The reported- dowery of the Czar t» the princess is d enied. Adelaide, October. 24. At fche Cycling League meeting the first-class handicap resulted as follows : Kerr, 1 ; Lewis, 2 ; M'Donnell, 3. Time 2min 17 2-sth sees. The five-mile international race : Lewis, 1 ; Bodidi (Italian crack), 2 ; M'Donnell, 3. Time, 12min 21secs. Lewis rods a fine race, and won handsomely.

Brisbane, October 24. Flour has advanced L 2 per ton, consequently the price of bread has been raised.

In a quarrel at the shearers' camp at Lura John Bowen killed a man named Michael Callaghan by striking him on the head with a bottle. Bowen has been arrested, and admits that he killed Callaghan, and says he committed the deed owing to the latter telling lies about him.

Melbourne, October 25. Parsons, paced by a triplet, covered <*, half-mile m 59 l-sth sees, which is the world's record for the distance on grass. The gold output for nine months, ended September, ia 586,5120z5, an increase of 31,0000zs compared with a, similar period of last year.