BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6285, 16 September 1898, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

United Press Association— "Ry Electric Telegraph — Copyright. CHINA AND JAPAN. SHANGHAI, Sept. 15. The Marquis Ito is at present on a visit to Pekin- for the purpose of studying the value of China aa an ally for Japan. THE WRECK OF TH£ CHINA. LONDON, Sept, 15. Salvage operations at the wreck of the steamer China, at the Island of Perim, are proceeding satisfactorily. CHILI AND THE ARGENTINE. The Governments of Chili and the Argentine Republic have agreed to ask Great Britain to appoint a Court of Arbitration to settle the boundary dispute between tho two coimtrics. MOUNTAIN CLIMBING. Sir William Martin .onway, the wellknown traveller and scientist, ascended ; Mount Yelitana, in Bolivia, to a height of 22.5C0ft. j STEAMER ON FIRE.

The North German Lloyd's steamer Oldenburg, homeward bound from Australia, ! arrived "at Aden with a portion of her cargo on fire. The outbreak was extinguished, but 120 bales of wool were damaged. DIPLOMATIC. WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. Senator Hoar has again declined the appointment of American Ambassador to England, and Mr John D. Long, Secretary for the Navy, lias been asked to accept the position. THE COREAiI POISONING CASE. \ SEOUL, Sept. 15. The Crown Prince of Corea is still suffer-

ing from the effects of poison. The. attempt is attributed to political motives. VERSUYIUS IN ERUPTION. ROME, Sept. 15. Mount Vesuvius is dangerously active, the eruptions being unequalled since 1872. IN SERIOUS TIMES. BERLIN, Sept. 15. The Emperor, in the course of a speech at Prenzlow, said that they lived in serious times and revolutionary designs must be forcibly combated.