Tho Dowager and Council are discussing Yuanshihka's proposal to appoint six foreigners to advise on international nuance, military, naval, parliamentary, and domestic Government affairs. Tho success achieved in Japan by a similar plan is instanced. The prooossion the day following the coronation will take tho same route as on the occasion of the Jubilee of 1887.
Received January 26. at 4.52 p.m, London, January 25. Mr R. Vaile, a Now Zealander, and a Radical Roseboryite, is a candidate for the Eccleshailseat, rendered vacant by' the death of Mr Ashmoad Bartlefct.
Lord Cranbourne, in the House of Commons, stated that the occupatfon of a seaport on the Persian Gulf by any Power was inconsistent with the mainten ance of the status quo. Replying to a question regarding Manchuria, he ;aid Great Britain's policy was to maintain tho status quo iu China established by treaty. The Westralian million and a half loan, 3tj3 3 l percent, has been underwritten! ft is issued at a minimum of 1021. Received January 20, at 4,35 p.m, London, January 25.
