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Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 18, 31 August 1894, Page 2

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HOME AND FOREIGN. The War in Corea. Shanghai, August 29. It is reported that the Chinese troops, aided by 5000 Coreans, have driven the Japanese, with heavy loss, from Raising, and that they continue to advance. Other rumours state that the Japanese are landing forces north of Taku, and preparations are being made to inarch on Pekin. Two thousand Japanese have been landed at Yalu River, with the object of cutting off Chinese communication. . London, August 28. The produce merchants in Cadiz, Spain, have requested Mr Forrest, of Queensland, to forward three trial shipments of that colony’s meat, as they believe there is a good chance of opening a market there. The thawing of frozen meat under Nekou Bros.’ new patent will cost a farthing per lb, and Smithfield experts expect that it will increase- the value of meat from one penny to one and a halfpenny per lb. The process of mechanical thawing will occupy two days for mutton and five days for beef. At a meeting of the Bank of New Zealand shareholders, Mr R. H. Glyn, chairman, stated that the Estates Company had never earned more than 1|- per cent per annum, and this year had made nothing. A meeting of Anarchists on Hampstead Heath was broken up by a number of working men. Rome, August 27. The Italian Government is resuming the construction of strong fortifications on the Austrian and Swiss frontiers. Batavia, August 28. The native cheftain Lambok defeated the Dutch troops with considerable loss, 161 being killed, including General Vagham and 14 other officers. Paris, August 28. The Journal Des Debats says it is repoited in Senegal that there has been three days fighting at Timbuctoo, and that two French companies have been destroped. New York, August 28. A colliery at Seattle, in Washington State, caught fire, and 100 miners wore entombed. Thirty-seven corpses were taken out horribly burnt. Owing to the roofs of the drives falling in, the rescue party has been unable to reach the others, and they are believed to be dead. Berlin, August 28. M. Stambouloff, the deposed Premier of Bulgaria, has had an interview with the representative of the Frank Furter Zeitung, at which ho made some remarkable statements. He declared that Prince Ferdinand would not be allowed to sacrifice Bulgaria to Russia, merely to gratify his personal vanity. He further declared that the Russian Government had offered him five million roubles to depose Prince Ferdinand, but he de--clined, as he preferred to be hanged in Bulgaria to living in Russia. Berlin, August %7. Germany intends to build two railways to the southern frontier, in order to enable troops to be rapidly mobilised in the direction of Belfort, a French fortress a short distance across the border. Owing to frequent subsidences in Eislebeu—a town of Prussian Saxony —destroying houses, it,is reported that the whole population is departing, paqse is believed to be the failure to drain a which is undermining the town.