NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 22, 14 September 1894, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

HOME AND FOREIGN. The War in Corea. Shanghai, September 10. Skirmishing occurred at Pingkong on Friday between the Chinese and Japanese troops. The King of Corea has despached a representative to Pekin, who conveys a number of presents for the Dowager Empress for the anniversary of her birthday. The Chinese cruiser Cheffu has been wrecked. She had 1400 men on board, and they had a narrow escape for their lives. The Chinese boarded a French mail steamer at Shanghai, searching for Japanese officers returning from Europe. The captain threatened to summon a -warship. It is reported that the Chinese in North Corea are hemmed in and without food. They are reduced to eating cavalry ponies. The Japanese man of war Hawia sank after engaging the Ching Feu. Another cruiser was badly injured, and is now in dock at Nagasaki. London, September 8. The Financial Times characterises the New Zealand Budget as a daring experiment, hut regrets the resumption of borrowing. , * Rome, -September 8. A cafe in Turin was wrecked to-day by the explosion of a bomb. Fortunately no persons wore injured. Berlin, September 8. Princess Bismarck is seriously ill. The Emperor, speaking at a banquet in Coningsburg, scathingly admonished the Prusssan nobility for combating the Imperial schemes for the welfare of his country, and declared such opposition a monstrosity. He concluded, “ Onward, with God against the parties for revolution, and dishonor be his who forsakes me.” Ottawa, September 8. The deficit of revenue in the Do-, minion for the year is £200,000. St. Petebbukg, September 8. Two thousand deaths from cholera are reported weekly in Poland. Melbourne, September 10. At the conclusion of Mr Speaker Bent’s political address to his constituents two clergymen moved an amendment to the vote of confidence that on moral grounds Bent was unfit to represent the constituency. There was a great uproar, and the clergyman, being subject to much abuse, retired, and the amendment was not put. The Premier has instructed the police to strongly repress lawlessness when shearing begins this week. Sydney, September 10.

Further details by way of Noumea show that the man-o’-war Ringarooma went ashore at 8 a.m. on August 81. The accident was attributed to variation and the effecl of a current of abnormal force. She was steaming nine knots at the time of striking, and is now standing almost on end, and is dry up to forward funnel at low water. St. Petersburg, September 10

Eight farmers in Poganork have been murdered and robbed, and 21 peasants.