THE FAR EAST.

Otago Witness, Issue 2323, 8 September 1898, Page 13

THE FAR EAST.

SATISFACTORY ASSUEANCE PROM RUSSIA. SQUEEZING CHINA. LONDON, August 29. Active negotiations are proceeding be* tween Sir Charles Scott (British Ambassador- at St. Petersburg) and Count Murayieff (the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs). A more friendly spirit prevails between Russia and Great Britain since the removal of M. Pavloff from Pekin. August 31. Reuler's Pekin correspondent states that Great Britain is demanding railway concessions from China in compensation for the concessions granted to the Belgian syndicate for the construction of a x'ailway from Pekin to Hankow. September 1. The Standard's St. Petersburg correspondent states that Russia has given completely satisfactory assurances with respect to the British sphere in China. It is rumoured that the British admiral has been directed to seize all Chinese vessels and the customs house unless the Tsung-li-Yamen complied with the British demands. SHANGHAI, August 31. The Black Flag rebellion in 1 Southern .China is spreading, and the rebels are now within 50 miles of Canton. September 1. The Viceroy of the Chinese provinca of Liang Kwang, which includes the southern provinces of Kwangsi and Kwangtung, has resigned as a protest against the surrender to France of the port of Kwang Chanwan. The Post denies the report that several changes in the police inspectors of the colonyare about to be made. chamberlain's cough eesiedt supeeiob to ant otheb. Geo. B. Secord, the well-known contractor of Towanda, N.Y., says:-;-" I have used Chamberlain's Cough Remecry y in my family, . for a long time, and have found v it superior ito any other," For sal© hv &U -leading I chemist*