NEWS BY CABLE.

Southland Times, Issue 14329, 25 April 1899, Page 3

NEWS BY CABLE.

British and Foreign CANADA’S SOLDIERS WANT LINING UP. CHINA GETS MORE BARBARIAN MONEY. MEAT, HIDES AND WHEAT QUOTATIONS. YANKEES TIRING OF INGLORI- . OUS FIGHTING. L.M. SOCIETY ACCUSED.. OF MAKING TROUBLE IN SAMOA. BALLARAT STRIKE REASONABLY SETTLED. LOSS OF A BRITISH BARQUE. A REAL TOP PRICE FOR WOOL ANOTHER SKIRMISH IN MANILA. A NEW LINE FOR CITY FATHERS. MORE OF FRANCE’S NATIONAL DISGRACE. WHAT MAY HAPPEN AFTER THE PEACE CONFERENCE. [United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] ■ LONDON, April 23. Major-General Hutton, Commandant of the Canadian forces, states that the standard of efficiency of the Canadian troops is below that of similar troops in other parts of the Empire. China lias floated another loan for developmental purposes, which has been covered twofold by French and Belgian financiers. At a meeting at the Mansion House Mr Cecil Rhodes and Mr Cockburn, Agent-General for South Australia, gave testimony as to the solid work done in the colonies by the Salvation Army. It is reported that the P. and O.S.N. Company have asked Italy to make the Bay of Lucca the mail port in place of Brindisi.

United States Senator Quay and others have been acquitted on a charge of conspiracy to misuse of State funds. Frozen mutton —Crossbred wether and maiden ewe: Canterbury, 4d 1-16th per lb; Dunedin and Southland, not quoted; North Island, 3fd. Lamb — Prime Canterbury, 4-jd; fair average Dunedin, Southland, Wellington, and secondary Canterbury, 4d 9-16 th. River Plate crossbred |or merino wether, heavy, 3fd ; light, 3|d. Wheat — The following Victorian cargoes have been sold:—Per Hornsby Castle, at 28s 9d; per Dumfriesshire, (sailed Feb. 15th), 29s 3d; Ballachulish (loading at Geelong), 28s 3d ; also 9000 quarters of South Australian at 295. Hides are slow of sale and a shade easier. Lent he r and basils are lifeless. American newspapers are despondent concerning the Philippine war, and express much difference of opinion respecting the expediency of enforcing sovereign rights in the islands. Mr Michael Davitt, in a letter published in Germany, accused the London Missionary Society of having caused the Samoan trouble. Mr Davitt’s statements are endorsed by Mr Osborne Lloyd, late American Vice-Consul at Samoa. April 24. Received 25th, 12.59 a.m. The Filipinos, who are strongly entrenched at Gingua, killed eight and wounded 50 Americans. Subsequently the Americans were reinforced and captured the rebels position. U.S. Secretary Long lias ordered Captain Coglan to return aboard the Raleigh. Coglan explains that his utterances about Dewey’s differences with the German Admiral Diedrich were intended to be confidential. The discontent amongst the volunteer in the Philippines has been traced to telegrams sent by Mr McKinley’s opponents. The burgomaster and the whole of the town council of Bazer, in Hungary, has been arrested for forging bank notes. They were caught redhanded at the work in a cellar of the town hall.

Signor Marconi goes to America in October to prosecute the introduction, of wireless telegraphy. The Times states that Baroness Hirsch’s fortune does not exceed four millions. General Mercier, re-examined, admitted that he withheld from the Dreyfus court-martial Colonel Pauizzardi’s telegram to his government at Rome, asking them to deny relations with Dreyfus if none existed. M. Hanotaux deposed that he felt patriotic anguish at the prospect of diplomatic difficulties and he persistently endeavoured to prevent the trial, but was not cognisant of the communication of the secret dossier to the courtmartial. M. Chincolle deposed that he heard Esterhazy declare that he wrote the bordereau ; that he was ordered to write it, and received eighty thousand francs from General Billot in one year. Maitre Berenger will call the attention of the Senate to the illegality of secretly communicating with a courtmartial. The Times’ Vienna correspondent states that information from various continental capitals testifies to a growing apprehension that the peace conference will have untoward results, and that a failure to effect a reduction of armaments will do more harm than good. The utmost skill will be needed to bring the deliberations to a peaceable conclusion. Obituary:—Sir John Mowbray, M.P. for Oxford University and father of Hopse, agpd 84, Australian. SYDNEY, April Received 25th, 1.20 a.m. At the local wool sales to-day a parcel of Queensland scoured realised Is 9d, the highest price reached for 13 years.

BRISBANE, April 24. A Japanese steamer has landed the crew of the British barque Clwyd, picked up after being several days adrift in an open boat. The Clwyd was wrecked on the Pratas shoal on the voyage from Hong Kong to Peru with a cargo of rice. At least two members of the Cabinet will take an active part in the crusade against the Commonwealth Bill. MELBOURNE, April 24. The trouble at the Ballarat Woollen Mills has ended, the employers having accepted the strikers’ offer to make up the time lost on the Eight Hours Day. The New Zealand polo team beat the Melbourne Club by eleven goals and 21 behinds to three goals. PERTH, April 24. A rich tin field is reported ten miles east of Marble Bar.