NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 16, 24 August 1894, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

DOME AND FOREIGN.

The War in Corea. London, August 21. The Shanghai correspondent of the Times says that skirmishes are reported to have taken place at Pinrang, and a great battle is expected. The Japanese position at Seoul, the capital, commands the approaches to the town, and it will be difficult to dislodge them. The Mikado demands the abolition of the Chinese suzerainty over Corea. The Japanese Legation is gratified at the measures taken by the Government to preserve neutrality on the part of the British subjects. The Islam’s munitions were intended for Japan. Washington, August 20.

Many Japanese officers and students in America are returning home immediately. Four car loads of Chinese left New York for China, via Vancouver. Shanghai, August 20.

General Oshima has sent 'forward a strong force to meet the Chinese, who are advancing on Seoul. Shanghai, August 22. The Chinese report that they att icked the Japanese at Pinrang on Friday, and drove them back eleven miles to Chung Ho, with heavy loss. The fight was renewed the next day, and Chung Ho was captured, the Japanese suffering severely. The Japanese are re embarking troops at Fusan,' but with what object is unknown. London, August 21. In the House of Commons Sir E. Grey Parliament Secretary to the Foreign Office, amid cheers, confirmed the statement that Jabez Balfonr had been extradited. The Pall Mall Gazette says the grounds upon which the extradition was allowed wero_ defrauding the Liberator Society, jointly with Hobbs and Wright, of £20,000, and absconding with £4OO and falsifying the books.