LATE CABLE. By ElectriC Telegraph.—Copyright. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8168, 24 April 1895, Page 2

LATE CABLE. By ElectriC Telegraph. — Copyright. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Received April 24, at 0.45 a.m. Sydney, April 23. Arrivod — Waihora, froaa Auckland. Coul'nn, thn assistant-paymaster on board 11. M.5. Wildurn, foe whose arrest a warrant was issued on a charge of embezzlement, was cap tin el in Sydney. In the Assembly the Premier HUted ho understood tho motion recently cmiod limiting tho term of the Agont-Gener»l'a ofiico t<> apply to the future and not to the present appointment The Council's amendments to the C >al Miners Bill vria discussed by the Housp, »nd a majority of the more iirportant ones reject td. Newcastle, April 23.

Arrived — Poherua. Tokio, April 23. Tlio Mikado has ii c sued a proclamation .suiting that though 'lie victorious road along which civilised J<tpin must match is long, much remains to be done : military defence must bo perfected in a spirit of modesty. The Russians have stopped the leave of sailors on tho fleetat Kobonnd Nigasaki, and the ships are nady to sail in twelvo hours, it required.

Shanghai, April 23. China is raising a lo«n of twenty-five millions for the purpose of paying tho in» dcmni y.

Pamh, April 23. Franco, Russia, and Germany have addressed protests to Japan against the terms of peace, couched in identical language. Lo Temps asserts the terms are a menace to Kurope, ami it is tho duty of England to act in concert with (he Powers.