NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume I, Issue 28, 5 October 1894, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

HOME AND FOREIGN.

Calcutta, October 1.

It is reported that the Chinese have destroyed the frontier pillars in Cashmere, and set up others further this side.

London, October 1.

H.M.S. Champion reports that Necker Island is unsuitable for a cable station, as there is no landing place.

The Otarama has returned to Gravesend with the loss of her main topmast and severe damages to the bows, caused by a collision with a sailing vessel in the Channel. Three of the crew are missing. News from the Benin district, West Coast of Africi, states that Admiral Bsdfore stormed the stronghold of Chief Nana at Bu .ffiemie, capturing 75 cannons and a large quantity of ammunition. Nana, who has given a great deal of trouble to the British, - is now a fugitive. St. Peteksbubg, October 1.

The Czar is almost a skeleton, and is hardly able to use his arms. He spends nis nights in weeping for his consumptive son Georgo. He suddenly walked to the telegraph office at one o’clock in the morning, and wired an enquiry to the doctor attending the young Prince. He waited shivering in the fireless office an hour and a half, and upon receiving bad news, cried, “ Oh, God ! what have I done to be so severely punished! ” Berlin, October 1.

One hundred and eighty-nine commissioned officers in a German school at Berlin were arrested for mutinous conduct, and imprisoned at Madgebuvg. The Emperor ordered the garrison to be alarmed at the dead of night, and surrounded the school. The prisoners were roused out of their beds. A. great sensation was caused in the 'why tiff* freak of the I’m-. 'QW- • ' , Batavia, October 1. The Dutch have captured Matarau, with the loss of 12 killed and 49 wounded. Lisbon, October 1. The steamer Dorunda struck the recks during a fog. The totarnumber of sovereigns saved up to the present is 22,000. Sydney, October 1. H.M.S. Kingarooraa has been docked. About 80 feet of her outer bottom is dented and the rivets knocked out, and also between 20 and. 25 feet of the frames of the skin, start'd. To the unpractised eye scarcely anything is noticeable. It will take about 10 weeks to repair the damage. Perth, October 1.

Another rich reefing property has been struck 25 miles from the NinetyMile.

A splendid supply of water has been struck near the Londonderry mine. It requires condensing, but it is now being supplied at threepence per gallon.