NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume II, Issue 88, 7 May 1895, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

HOME ANB FOREIGN. CHINA-JAPAN TREATY. St. Petersburg, May 3. Russian newspapers continue to vehemently assail England, and threaten her with action on the Indian frontier in retaliation for her refusal to join in the European protest against the peace treaty. Berlin, May 3. Bismarck’s newspapers show hostility to England in connection with the peace treaty. Paris, May 8. It is reported that Japan is willing to renounce the territory claimed on the Continent if she is permitted to recoup herself where Russia has no interest.

Tokio, May 8. The Japanese have released the steamer Yeksang and cargo confiscated as contraband of war.

London, May 4.

Japan has placed large orders in Europe for munitions of war and small swift cruisers.

The Times states that Russia will declare war if Japan remains obstinate. Shanghai, May 4.

Pekin officials urge that an offer should be made to pay double indemnity instead of the cession of part of Manchuria.

Others protest against giving up Formosa, and offer to contribute to the redemption fund.

London, May 2. In his address at the Royal Colonial Institute, Mr Ward said that if the future proved that mistakes had been made in framing the social laws at present ruling in New Zealand, the common sense of the. people would correct them. The people themselves would not allow the country to suffer, and they had no desire to smash up things which were at present successful. Though the colony possessed all the elements of a separate nation it would warmly adhere to Great Britain on the grounds of affection and commercial interests.

The tenders for the West Australian 3$ per cent loan of three quarters of a million, with a maximum of 99, have opened. There was heavy tendering, and the amount subscribed was £2,860,800. One syndicate tendered for a million and a half at £lO2 19s 6d, and were allotted 20 per cent; and another syndicate tendered for £225,000 at £lO3 Os 6d. The loan average is £lO3, London, May 4.

Tenders were opened to-day for the New Zealand 8 per cent million and a half loan, with a minimum of 90. The total amount offered was £5,968,400. There were tenders for £3,210,000 at £94 Bs, which price will get about one-tbird. The average of the loan was about 94|. The highest tender was 97.

Mr John Burns, M.P., suggests that the workers in Europe should unite and form a concordat, guiding the employment of women and children, insurance, liability of employers, and hours of labor. He proposes to convene a conference to meet in London to discuss the matter. Mr F. McGuire, M.H.R., of New Zealand, who is on a visit to England, states that he has induced the New Plymouth bondholders to arbitrate with the New Zealand Government lor the restitution of the two hundred thousand acres included in the grant. Russia, Great Britain, and France will shortly present a scheme to the Porte for reforms in Armenia. The Porte has already approved of r scheme enabling Armenians to taka part in the provincial administration. St. Petersburg, May 4.

Prince Uchtoniski, the Czar’s companion during hia Asiatic tour, and his close friend, declares that Russia claims Asia, and woe to those opposing her advance. New York, May 3. .

The British have arrested a Nicaraguan official for attempting to prevent supplies being sent to the fleets. Mar rines have destroyed the railway line, thus isolating Corinto and hampering the advance of the local troops, which is a possible contingency. Melbourne, May 4. At the opening of the Anglican Assembly of Ballarat, Bishop Thornton said he was voicing the sentiment of the whole members of the Assembly when ho said that while they hailed with joy the re-union at Home that was again uniting with the original English Church non-papal, or Protestant Christian bodies, they would consider a union with Rome, which would in effect place the Church of England once more under the authority of the Bishop of Romo, to be as absolutely objectionable as it was hopelessly impracticable. A fearful tragedy occurred this morning at Collingwood, where Michael Dooley, a laborer, murdered his wife and mother in the presence of his children, and inflicted fatal injuries on a lodger who attempted to interfere. Later particulars of the Dooley tragedy show that Mrs Dooley was a hard working woman. Her husband illtreated her, and fearing her life was in danger she obtained a warrant for his arrest, and it was the intention of the police to execute it this morning. Dooley, however, broke into the house with an axe before daylight, and afjjer gashing his wife with the axe took her by the hair, and cut her throat. Six children huddled together iu bed were helpless witnesses of the tragedy. Dooley then went to his mother-in-law’s room, and dealt her a fearful blow with an axe, and afterwards nearly severed her head from the body with a razor. He then looted the house, and took all the money he could find.

On going outside he met Neale, a lodger in the house, who was runnings for police assistance. Dooley atouok hjm a terrific blow with the axe, and fractured his skull, but there are now some hopes of his recovery.