NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 17, 28 August 1894, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

HOME AND FOREIGN. The War in Corea. Shanghai, August 25. Conflicting accounts are to hand of an encounter at Ping Yang. The Japanese declare that it was simply a trouble with the outposts, and that only one of their men was killed and five wounded. The Chinese details state that the Japanese transports landed a force at Ching Pang inlet, and that 6000 men marched on Ping Yang. Further, that 1000 Chinese cavalry attacked and divided the Japanese artillery and completely routed them with the loss of 1800 men. The remainder retreated under shelter of a fire from the warships. The Chinese authorities are massing 34,000 men, and are sending 10,000 towards Sedue, where the Japanse have a strong position. A fierce battle is imminent. The Chinese force which was defeated at Asan has been successful in making a junction with the Ping Yang troops, after a brilliant retreat over a distance of 350 miles, and continually harrassed by the Japanese. London, August 25. The Government have abolished the eight-hour experiment in the Waltham gunpowder factory. Continuous rains are impairing the English harvest. The Mersey Harbour Board are greatly increasing the facilities for handling wool, and hope by that means to make Liverpool a centre for the Australian trades. Messrs Nelson Bros.’ patent process for thawing beef was exhibited at Smithfield to-day, and declared by experts to be superior to all previous attempts. In her trial trip, the P. and O. Company’s new steamer Caledonia registered 19 knots. Surrey has won the cricket championship. A forecast of the butter market has been published, giving the views of the leading colonial and continental importers, which is to the effect that unless shipments are made early they had better be reserved until winter. St. Petersburg, August 25. The Russians have arrested five Austrians, who were spying out the military frontier, and sent them to Siberia. It is now alleged that the discoverey of the elaborate plot for the assassination of the Czar led to the cancellation of orders for the military manoeuvres at Smolenski. By a tidal wave in the Sea of Azof, a number of villages were destroyed, and several ships, together with their crews, were lost. Paris, August 25. Le Temps declares that Commassie’s story is a humbug.