WAR IN CHINA.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4882, 2 September 1884, Page 2

WAR IN CHINA.

Hongkong, August 31,

It is currently reported that China bas issued a declaration of war against France, and that the Japanese Government has been notified to that effect.

Head Hunting. An official proclamation has been published at Canton setting a price upon the heads of all Frenchmea resident in Chinese territory. London, August 31. The Chinese troops are marching to Quangsi.

General Millott has resigned the command of the French forces in Tonquin, and he has been succeeded by General Delisle.

Hong Kong, September 1. China and Japan Quarrelling.

The report regarding the declaration of war by China, telegraphed yesterday, refers to Japan, not France. A dispute has arisen between the Chinese and Japanese Governments regarding the Loo-Chow Islands Sovereignly, which is claimed from China by Japan, it is generally believed hostilities between those countries are imminent.

[Specials to the Pbess Association]

London, August 30.

The support extended to the nee.' Oriental Bank Company is considered sufficient to justify operations being carried on. The response from the Australian shareholders is disappointing. The gentleman nominated by New South Wales to attend the Postal Conference at Lisbon will be unable to attend.

A movement is on foot to enfertain the Australian cricketers at a banquet before their departure.

Arrived: The ship Mataura, with a cargo of 6000 carcases of frozen mutton, from the Bluff, May 12.

London, August 29. The homeward mails via San Franciico, which left Auckland on July 22, were delivered to>day.

, —. j£ - .......... _ - New Zealand mutton, prime quality, continues to realise 5d per lb.

London, August 31

Sir Bichard Temple, Bart., G.C.S.IE., in an able paper read at a meeting of the British Association now being held at Montreal, stated that 13 per cent, of ths world's commerce pertains to the British colonies and dependencies. He also stated that the average earnings of Australia were the highest in the world.

The American papers express intense surprise at the defeat of Hanlan by Beach. The Spectator states that the proposed alterations by the French Senate in the Becidiviste Bill do not touch the real objections raised by the colonies. At Mr Gladstone's meeting at Edinburgh, ho confined his speech to the subject of the Franchise. Bill in the House of Commons. He denied the right of the House of Lords to force an appeal to the country on the measure.

(Age Specials.)

London, August 25. G-o.many and Africa.

The report that the commander of a gunlaoat forcibly removed the English flag at Seguena, on the west coast of Africa, and hoisted the German flag, needs confirmation.

It is rumored that Germany intends lo propose a congress of delegates from the Great Powers to confer upon the question of the Congo boundary* as affecting Egypt. Taw Mao not Coming yet. Tawhiao will not return to New Zealand with his chiefs, who leave by the Orient steamer Potosi, but will remain for some time longer in England. Austrian ColonisationThe Austrian Government has decided to despatch a number of warships to the Pacific, Africa, and other places with a view of extending her colonial possessions and carrying out the proposed system of colonisation.

August 27. The Pall Mall Gazette, in an article last night, referring to the recent contest between Beach and Hanlan for the sculling championship of the world, expressed doubt at to whether Hanlon was genuinely defeated.

Canadian Khartoum Expedition.

It [is reported from Canada that 6CD boatmen are enlisting in an expedition which is being formed to navigate the Nile and to relieve General Gordon at Khartoum.