LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2809, 22 September 1885, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[REUTERS TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright, THE EXPORTATION OP WOOL TO CHINA AND JAPAN. CHOLERA EPIDEMIC AT TIMOR. BILL FOR THF PROTECTION OF WOMEN IN VICTORIA. REDUCTION OF SENTENCE ON THE ARTILLERY-MEN. INWARD BRINDISI MAIL. (Received September 21, 2 p.m.) Melbourne, September 21. Messrs Syunob Brothers, wool brokers of this city, have issued a circular iu which a proposal is made to convene a meeting for the purpose of taking steps to promote the exportation of wool from Australia to China and Japan, Mr Jonkheer Daniel Ploos Van Anistel, Consul General in Austi’alia for the Netherlands, received a telegram this morning from General Van Rees, Governor-General of the Dutch Bast Indies, reporting (hat Asiatic cholera had broken out at Koepang, in the island of Timor, in the Arafura Sea, and that it became epidemic in the island. (Received September 22, 1.25 p.m. September 22. It ia the intention of the Victorian Government to introduce a bill for the protection of women based on similar lines to the Act now iu force in England. The Cabinet has reduced the sentence passed on the first batch of insubordinate artillery men to two 111001113’ imprisonment, (Received September 22, 1.15 a.m.) Albany, August 21. The Peninsular and Oriental Company’s steamship Clyde, arrived at King George’s Sound this morning, with the inward Brindisi mail, dated London, August 21. LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] Hv Electric Ter, korapii—Copyright, HOMEWARD AND OUTWARD BRINDISI MAILS. THE REVOLUTION IN EASTERN ROUMELIA. MANIFESTO BY ALEXANDER I. TO THE BULGARIANS AND ROUMELTANS. STEAMSHIP MOVEMENTS. (Received September 21, 12.15 p.m.) London, September 21. Owing to the action of the Egyptian Sanitary Board in imposing quarantine on vessels arriving from the East, Lord John Manners, British PostmasterGeneral, has consented to the diversion of the Brindisi mail to the Suez Canal route, outwards and homewards. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have, therefore, made arrangements whereby their vessels avoid touching at Egyptian poits, and

mails and passengers via Brindisi pass through the canal instead of via Alexandria, thus avoiding the detention and annoyance attendant upon quarantine. (Received September 22, 1.15 p.m.) Later. A telegram to hand from Rouraelia states that Prince Alexander of Bulgaria has issued a manifesto to the inhabitants of Bulgaria and Roumelia, in which he accepts the crown of the two Bulgarias, and calls upon the people to help to defend the union. Prince Alexander is on the way to Pbilippopolis, the principal town of Eastern Roumelia. (Received September 22, 1.25 p.m.) Evening. Lord Carrington, Governor elect of New South Wales, sails for Australia on the 22nd October. (Received September 21, 12.15 p.m.) September 17. Seven thousand one hundred bales were catalogued at to-day’s wool sales, the demand being steady, but not active. Capetown, September 19. The New Zealand Shipping Company’s Royal Mail steamship Aorangi left last night for New Zealand. Rio de Janeiro, September 20. Arrived, to-day, the steamship Ruapehu, with her cargo of frozen meat in good condition.