LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 4198, 24 April 1895, Page 3

LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

Oscar Wilde and Taylor have been committed for trial. Lord Charles Beresford, speaking on Eastern affairs, said that Japan, in forty years, had passed through phases of development which had occupied England eight hundred years. It had become the strongest naval power in the East. Holding Fort Arthur and Weihaiwei was similar to an enemy in possession of Portsmouth and Plymouth. The Antwerp wool sales closed with prices unchanged. A total of 7,080 bales was offered, of which 2,600 were sold, including 332 bales of Australian wool, offered at 168s. After the visit of Cardinal Vaughan and Lord Halifax (English Church Union) and other Bitualists to Borne, the Pope issued a long special pastoral to the English people enjoining Catholics to pray for the reunion of the churches. A semi-official Russian note states that Russia, far from approving of the treaty of peace between China and Japan specially disapproves of the cession of Liantong, and intends to act with the other Powers in the interests of Europe. There is a petroleum boom in Pittsburg, United States, where the price per barrel has been fixed at from 10s to 20s, which has not been equalled there. The daily output is 20,000 barrels, which is under the demand. The population in the oil districts is greatly ejofted. over (he. waiter.