NEWS BY CABLE.

Southland Times, Issue 13586, 26 October 1896, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

British and Forei AMERICAN WHEAT GOING DOWN. “ JOSEPH ” BELIEVES IN BRITISH WORKMANSHIP. LONG RAILWA Y FOR CHINA. THE PRESIDENTIAL FIGHT. MORE ARMENIAN TROUBLES. A “ POMAHAWK ” PARALLEL. SERIOUS OUTLOOK IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. THE KIDNAPPED CHINESE RELEASED : HIS STORY. A BIG WHEAT-GROWING VENTURE. FATAL QUARREL AMONG SHEARERS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ) LONDON, Oct. 23. Wheat has fallen flva. cents per bushel in New York. The New Zealand and Australian Land Company has declared a dividend of 3| per cent.

Mr Joseph Chamberlain, speaking at Birmingham, said he did not believe that Germany in her commercial competition would overpower the British, whose national character would enable them to retain the trade. An American syndicate advances thirty million taels for the construction of the Hankow-Pekin railway, which will be 700 miles in length. It is expeted that vast hoards of gold will be released in the United States if Major McKinley is elected president. President Cleveland, speaking at Princeton University, denounced the attempt to entice the people to perpetrate what would be an act of national dishonesty—the free coinage of silver. There is a great ferment in Eastern Asia Minor where massacres are feared. The Sultan’s Albanian and Turkish guards quarrelled, and in the melee several were killed. Silver is quoted at 2s 7d l-16ths. A general strike of London cabmen is expected on Monday. Sunychsun, the Chinese doctor kidnapped by the Chinese Legation, was released directly Lord Salisbury demanded him. Obituary—Greathead, engineer. It is reported that the Queen will invite all rulers to meet in London to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of her reign. The Emperor William and the Czar have promised to be present, and the President of France is also likely to take part in the ceremonials. The splendid gameness with which Mr Bryan is fighting the Presidential election is attracting the sympathy of the workmen. He is delivering twenty speeches a day. Mr Hanna, Major McKinley’s chief manager, says McKinley’s success is assured. Oct. 24. Received 25th, 7 p.m. At auction 169 bales New Zealand hemp were bought in. Experts pronounce a shipment of Fiji tobacco excellent, and an attempt is being made to place it on the Continental markets. The Standard announces that Great Britain has agreed to arbitrate with Venezuela more liberally, though not unreservedly. Lieutenant Brusewitz, who killed an engineer in a Cafe at Carlsruhe, has been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment and is to be dismissed from the army,

Sum Yet Sun states that two Chinese officials accosted him outside of the Legation and coerced him to enter, and they then locked him up on the top storey. Sir H. Macartney, he says, told him that being in the Legation was equivalent to being in China, and the Ambassador officially informed him that he would not have to apply for his extradition. Sir H. Macartney said he would be bound in a bag and put in a box and taken to a vessel which would carry him to China, where he would be executed. If smuggling failed he would be killed in the Legation, his body embalmed, and sent to Pekin, where, though dead, the form of execution would be again gone' through. Fearing attempts were being made to poison him Sum Yet 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 in the newspapers secured his release. The 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 in taking the visitor, but declares that there was no intention to torture him. It has since transpired that Sum Yet Sun had been dogged for two years. Received 26th, 1.10 a.m. Lord Croinar states that the primary object of the Soudan campaign was the relief of Italy, which has been achieved and Gordon already half-avenged. The civil marriage of the Prince of Naples and Princess Helene was celebrated in the Quirinal of Rome. The Abbot of Pisicollo officiated at the Church of Sb. Marie. The utmost enthusiasm was shown, and King Humbert has granted amnesty to many prisoners in honour of his son’s marriage. The reported dowry of the Czar to the Princess is denied.