NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume II, Issue 89, 10 May 1895, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

HOME ANB FOREIGN.

CHIN A-JAPAN TREATY.

Shanghai, May 7. The British and German sailors virtually occupy the treaty ports in Formosa owing to the attitude of the " Black Flags." It is understood that Japan is wiling to surrender Liaotong Peninsula with the exception of Port Arthur, but the Great Powers are demanding the release of the whole peninsula.

The British Government advise Japan to accept the latter proposal. The Russian, German, and French squadrons, are assembled at Ohefoo. Paris, May 8.

The Japanese Minister in Paris has informed M. Hanotaux, Minister for Foreign Affairs', that Japan has renounced claim to Piemonent, to the permanent possession of Liaotong Peninsula, including Port Arthur. St. Petersburg, May 8.

A communique to the Journal de St. Petersburg states'that Japan, yielding to the advice of the Great Powers, has renounced the final possession of Fengtien.

London, May 9.

It is reported that the indemnity will be increased to ten millions sterling as a solatium to Japan for giving up territory on the mainland. Paris, May 9.

France suggests that Japan should limit the number of warships in Formosa waters and refrain from establishing a large garrison in Pescadores. . St. Petersburg, May 9.

The Russian Government is satisfied with the concessions made by Japan, and regards the incident as closed, and has stopped preparations for war.

London, May 8.

Oscar Wilde has been admitted to bail, himself in £2,500 and two sureties of £1,250 each. He has'been released, hi 3 sureties being Lord Douglas and the Rev Stewart Headlam.

The Yarina correspondent of the Daily News announces that the Sultan has instructed Rustein Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador in London, on behalf of the officials alleged tj be implicated, to sue the London press for what are claimed to be libellous accusations respecting the massacres at Sassoun.

Jabez Balfour was smuggled ashore at Southampton on the Customs launch, this step being taken to evade the small army of press men who were waiting to interview the prisoner. He was then conveyed to Bow-street police station, the efforts to evade the crowd at Waterloo railway station beiug successful. Balfour was subsequently brought before the Court -and remauded. __. ■>_,-▼■* ■- ~~ ~~

A lpsra-ii umber of people assembled t'i Plymouth to welcome Stoddart's team. Peel in the course of an interview, declared colonial cricket had vastly improved, and the members of the team were charmed with their visit, and the hospitality extended them. He believed that the Australian team chosen, to visit England next year would comprise the best all-round players the colonies possessed.

In an article in Pall Mall Gazette, George Giffen says that Stoddart's team in a marked degree revived Australian cricket, and a more popular •team never toured the colonies. Giffen considers that the best Australian eleven is slightly stronger than Stoddart's team. London, May 9. Jabez Balfour was charged with the fraudulent misuse of £20,000 of trust money belonging to the House and Lands Investment Trust Company; also the money of building societies of the company, and conspiring with Hobbs, and Wright, contractors to defraud the company. Mr Ward refused to agree to the proposal of the New Plymouth bondholders to submit their case to arbitration. Capetown, May 8. News from Madagascar states that the Freuch stormed Maroroay, killing three hundred Hovas, among the number being several leading chiefs. Madrid, May 8. * Campos, the commander of affairs in Cuba, has cabled to the Spanish Government, asking for 20,000 additional soldiers, and that others should be held in readiness to be despatched at any moment to assist in quelling the insurrection.

New York, May 7. The British marines have evacuated Corinto, and the Nicaraguan garrison has recrossed the lagoon to the mainland, and resumed their previous stations. As the British warships left the port they saluted the Nicaraguan flag.

Ottawa, May 7. The Canadian deficit amounts to four and a half million dollars. The Government propose a duty of half a cent per pound on raw sugar. Washington, May 7. By a cyclone at Sioux Falls fifty-two people were killed. In some instances children were carried half a mile by the force of the wind.

Vienna, May 9. Count Kalnolcy, in a private letter now published, denounced the papal nuncio in strongest terms. M. Banffy, Hungarian Premier declares that he always will maintain that the Vatican has no right to interfere with the internal affairs of Austria. The Emperor has asked both Count Kalnoky and M. Banffy to withdaaw their resignations, and the former replied that his position was untenable. Rome, May 9. A traiu carrying the King and Queen of Italy was thrown off the rails at Incisa, in Piedmont but their majesties escaped without injury. Melbourne, May 8. Tho Collingwood tragedy ended as sensationally as it began. Whilst being hunted down by the

police Dooley arsenic and died shortly after his arrest wa3 effected.

A letter was found in one of his pockets stating that he was what he had done, accusing his wife of infidelity, tlmt two of his wife's children were not his, and that if he could have found their father he would have killed him also. He regretted he had struck N. 1;

Dooley woi.l to the theatre the evening after tiie tragedy was committed.

Another sewer accident has happened at the Port Melbourne section of works, where the sewer is down 50ft. Three men, named William Young, James Phillips, and James Conroy where driving a shaft in sand, when the ground collapsed. Young just barely escaped. Phillips was crushed to death, and Conway was entombed, and was only rescued after three hours' work. He was badly injured. Sydney, May 8.

The steamer Kellee, from Solomon Islands, picked up three tfreuchmen at Mama Sound. They stated that they had been driven from Vila Harbor during a gale while fishing. They were 22 days in an open boat, and endured terrible sufferings before reaching Marna. Adelaide, May 8.

The Minister of Agriculture has received a report from Mr Young, butter, expert in London, in which he says that a trial at strength between continental and Australian butter is inevitable, but it is generally considered that the stall-fed cows in the long run will compete with the grass-fed animals of Australia. He strongly impresses upon exporters the necessity of sendiug the best uniform quality of butter, properly branded and in regular shipments. He disagrees with the suggestion to establish provincial distributing centres, and explains that all large distributing firms have headquarters in London, with branch agencies in provincial towns, all of which are within a few hours rail of the capital. It is therefore practially impossible to glut the London market unless every town in the country is in a similar condition, but it is easy to glut the provincial markets which are thus placed at a disadvantage.