Cable News Condensed.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 790, 13 November 1894, Page 4

Cable News Condensed.

London: .Seven British steamers loaded with cotton at Savannah, in the United States, found on fire. Outbreaks attributed to incendiarism on part of strikers.

Times thinks terms offered by China for declaration of peace are inadequate. Telegraph's correspondent wires that Japan demands evacuation of Corea, creation of buffer State between Corea and China, payment of war indewuitv of £40,000,000 sterling, and cession of Formosa or its equivalent.

Paris: News from Madagascar states Hovas promised to afford full protection to British residents on the island.

French Govt asks for £3,000,000 for Madagascar expedition. French expedition to Madagascar unlikely to land until April. In the meantime, warships will blockade coast.

Tamatnve correspondent of Le Temps says the Hovas, replying to French ultimatum, state they will not submit to French rule until forced to do so.

Berlin : General feeling in Reichstag in favour of naval expansion. Proposed to build whole fleet of swift ironclads and cruisers according to lessons of Eastern war.

Winter set in in Corea; will interfere with the campaign. St Petersburg : Secret printing presses for dissemination of seditious publications discovered in Kieff, Kharkov, and Nicolayeff. 80 arrests made. Washington : Strikers at Savannah set fire to 2 more ships and destroyed 500 feet of firemen’s hose.