NEWS BY CABLE.

Southland Times, Issue 14100, 13 July 1898, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

British and Foreign “ MONEY NO OBJECT ” TO THE SULTAN. CHINA’S LATEST TROUBLE : GROWING REBELLION. A STATION TRAGEDY. FATAL FIRE IN A TASMANIAN HOTEL : SIX LIVES LOST. WHEAT RISING. THE FEDERATION CAMPAIGN, United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 11. The Sultan is spending L 200.000 in preparing Yaldiz Palace for the reception of the Emperor and Empress of Germany on their forthcoming visit. 'I he Victorian r flemen who are practising for the Bisley meeting have fired 7000 rounds. They have exceeded the score with which they won the Kolapore Cup last year by eight points. Fargher and Carter each put on 102 out of 105. Many soldiers from Annam, led by foreigners, are joining the Black Flag rebellion in South China. Two thousand Manchu troops have been sent to repel the Annamite troops. At the wool sales competition was good and prices unchanged. The international chess congress is in progress. Mr Pihbury, of the United States, and Dr Tarsch are leading. Mr Thomas Owen, Liberal member for Launceston, has been accidentally drowned. Lord A. Hill, Conservative member for the west division of Down, has resigned his seat. July 12. a Received 13th, 0,18 a.m. Wheat is sixpencs per quarter dearer at Mark Lane for the week. At the wool sales Gove dip (sic) realised 9d per lb. Hawker, an Australian shot, defeated the Hon. S. R. Beresford at the Notting Hill Gun Club’s meeting for LlOO aside, killing 81 birds out of 96. Ho also won the members’ LlOO Challenge Cup and L7O, killing seven birds in succession. He also won several minor prizes. Australian SYDNEY July 12. Eastern news states that in the rebellion in the Kwan Tung and Kwang-si provinces the rebels took the town of Chow ChowTu, near Swatow, killed the district magistrate and his wife and burned the Yamen. The Hong Kong Telegraph further states that discontent is evident in various parts of the Empire, and though it may be too much to say that a huge revolution is under way, it is certain there is great restlessness throughout South China. Received 13th, 0.18 a.m. Mr Barton has issued a manifesto in which he states that he has decided to contest King Division against the Premier, and pieages himself to strenuously oppose any alteration iu the colony’s policy till federation is st cured. He will suggest a conference of Premiers to consider the elimination of the “ Braddons blot ” and the substitution of » bare majority for three-fifths, and that the capital be in New South Wales. The financial clauses of the Constitution Bill must stand till something better can be devised. He advocated, after federation, the cutting down of the local Parliament from 125 members to 64, with an efficient form of local government. BRISBANE, July 12. A demented swagman armed with a gun and knife stuck up Claveron station, and Mr Leeds, the manager, shot him dead in self-defence. HOBART, July 12. The Criterion Hotel at Gormanston has been destroyed by fire, and six lodgers— Messrs Davie, Mehe, Johnson, Henry Powell, and two Syrian hawkers—were burnt to death. Powell was a New Z aland miner. Lynch, proprietor of the hotel with his wife and children, escaped by the balcony in their nightclothes. A number of lodgers jumped from the balcony, a distance of sixteen feet, and several were slightly injured.