AUSTRALIAN.

Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5205, 22 September 1885, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

[BeeeiTed September 22, 0.15 p.m.] , Melboubne, This day. It is the intention of the Victorian Government to introduce a bill for the protection of women, based upon similar lines to the Act now in force m England. The Cabinet has reduced the sentences passed on the first batch of insubordinate Artillerymen to two months' imprisonment.

Melboubnb, Yesterday. Synnot Brothers, leading woolbrokers of this city, have issued circulars in which proposals are made to convene a meeting for the purpose of taking steps to promote the exportation of wool from Australia to China and Japan. Mr Daniel Floos ran Amstel, Consul* General in Australia for the Netherlands, received a telegram this morning from General Tan Dees, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, reporting that Asiatic cholera bad broken out at Koegang, in the Island of Timor, in the Arafura Sea, and that it had become epidemic in the Island.

Albany, Yesterday. The P. and O. Co.'s s.s. Clyde arrived in King George's Sound this morning, with the inward Brindisi mail, dated London, August 21st.

Adelaide, Yesterday. Government offer a reward of £300 for the arrest of Wood, the defaulting accountant to the Insolvency Court. According to information at the disposal of the police, he was last seen in Auckland.

[Age SpeciaiiS.l London, September 9. Germany and Spain. The German gun-boat which conveyed to Uap the landing party who hoisted the German Sag on that island, has left forjthe Caroline Islands. Cap has been left ungarrisoned, and it is expected that Spain will be allowed peaceably to retain possession of the whole group. The Times to»day publishes a statement to the effect that Emperor Wilhelm has made a promise to King Alfonso that Germany will withdraw all claim to the Caroline Islands, provided that the Spanish occupancy is rendered effective.

September 11. The prospects of a peaceful settlement of the dispute between Germany and Spain still continue to exist. The Spanish Government hare agreed to publish in the Gazette an acceptable apology for the indignity to which the German Embassy at Madrid was recently subjected by the populace, but expresses the hope that the claims of Spain to the Carolines will be recognised without relegating the question to arbitration, as the German Government hate proposed.

September 14. The Spanish squadron remains in the vicinity of Uap, and the German vessels hare departed. The status quo will be maintained now until new negotiations are completed.