LATEST CABLE NEWS.
(REVTEKS SPECIAL 10 PRESS AGENCY.;
London, April 16,
The war feeling at St. Petersburg is intense. The Czar is going to Kichener. The rumor about Persia claiming Bagdad is denied. During the debate in the House of Lords on the protocol, Earl Granville criticised the action of the Government. Lord Derby vindicated its action as being the best step the Government could take under the present circumstances, to say nothing of the future. Sydney, Wednesday.
Sailed—Rotorua, for Auckland. News via Torres Strait from China reports that thousands are suffering through the famine. The severest privations are at Kiangsee. Rice has risen to famine prices. The distress is daily becoming greater, the relief being lamentably insufficient. The people are reduced to the last stage of emaciation and exhaustion, and are dying by thousands daily.
The Satszuma rebellion at Japan is more serious than at first anticipated, but the rebels are dispirited by defeat. Two thousand Chinese troops being dissatisfied, broke loose, and left the camp, but were followed and a large number lolled. Thursday. The steamer Bowen arrived yesterday at Oooktown, with over five hundred Chinese. The steamer Gilly Borne, now in quarantine, has over a thousand Chinese on board. Provisions are running short.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5015, 20 April 1877, Page 2
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