NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume II, Issue 76, 26 March 1895, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

HOME AND FOREIGN. CHINA-JAPAN WAR. Shanghai, March 23. Latest reports state that the Japanese troop* hoW .»!' the roads to Pekin. Li Hung Ohaiig. in asking the Emperor of Japan to agree to an armistice, offered on behalf of the Chinese Government who agree to feed and pay the Japanese forces at present on Chinese soil. The Chinese Mercury states that China has secretly treated to secure the help of Russia. Chinese scouts report that the Japanese are close on Kinchow. The Chinese are preparing to make a stand at Shah's river. The Chinese are blockading Tamsim, in Formosa. Toiao, March 23. The Premier of Japan gave Li Hung Chang a very cordial reception on his arrival. London, March 23. The St. Petersburg correspondent of The Times says that Russia is sending her Mediterranean squadron to Chinese waters to be ready to combine with the British fleet in any action that may be taken regarding the Japanese demands. The Berlin correspondent of the Standard says: I hear from a generally well-iuformed quarter that Japan has formulated her conditions of peace approximately as follows: " The independence of Corea under the suzerainty of Japan; the cession by China of certain islands; the razing of the Taku ports ; the deprivation of Port Arthur and Wei-hae-wae of their character as naval ports, aud their dismantlement; the demolition of all fortifications on the way from Corea into China ; the acknowledgment of Japan's right to prescribe the number and type of China's war vessels; a very heavy war indemnity; and, if possible, the establishment of friendly relations by way of preparation for a China-Japa-nese Alliance." INSUKRECTION IN PERU. New York, March 23. Details of the fighting in Lima show that the rebels entered the city under cover of darkness and seized a church and fired from the towers into the streets. Other detachments sacked clubs and shops. After two days' fighting the diplomatic corps arranged an armistice to enable the dead to be buried. Scores of bodies were piled in a heap in the streets and cremated. The loss on both sides was about 8000 men killed. The new Government have been installed, aqd everything is reported to be quiet in the city. ENGLISH POLITICS. London, March 23. In the House of Commons the Home Secretary moved the second reading of the Welsh Disestablishment Bill, which was carried without division.

The Radical newspapers fear that Lord Rosebery contemplates resigning the Premiership at an early date, owing to ill health.

In the House of Commons Sir E. Grey said the Government declined to interfere in Mataafa's case, as there was every reason to believe the rebel chief was being well treated.

The Times admits that Mr Montague Nelson, Chairman of Nelson Bros., has strong claims to be selected as the Conservative candidade for the Warwick and Leamington seat, which is to be vacated by Mr Speaker Peel, but advises him to retire from the contest in order to avoid a division in the party. The Duke of Devonshire, the Marquis of Salisbury, and Mr Balfour support the candidature of the Speaker's son, Mr George Peel.

London, March 28.

The balance-sheet of the Australian and New Zealand Mortgage and Agency Co, for the year shows a profit of £51,000. A dividend of 5 per cent is recommended and £3OOO carried forward to next year. Sir Robt. Hamilton, formerly Governor of Tasmania, is suffering from influenza, and his condition is serious. New Yobk, March 28.

Obituary—Adam Jadean, who was General Grant's secretary during his tour of the world.

* The trial shipment of Columbian salmon and halibut sent frozen via Australia has reached London in excellent condition. The promoters of tho shipment anticipate being able to open up a profitable trade. By an explosion in a colliery in Redlanyor, Wyoming, 70 miners were killed.

Sydney, March 28.

At a meeting of unionist shearers at Hughenden it was decided to strike during the coming season for an increase in rouse-about's wages to thirty shillings a week. There is a feeling of disquietude throughout the district, and police patrols are being despatched to centres where trouble is expected. Melbourne, March 12.

The Railway Commissioners hare issued district instructions to prevent the use of free railway passes retained by certain ex-members of both branches of Parliament. A list of names of those retaining passes has been published, and the railway employees have been ordered to report any attempt made to use them. Some of the persons in the published list are dead.