The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-05

San Francisco. June 4The steamer
City of Sydney arrived today. bringing
Japanese advices to May IS, and Chinese
to May 9.
The japanese diet met May Il. and a
candidate hostile to the government was
nominated for president of the lower
house by plurality of four votes over
the next highest candidate The selection
of Kusuomoto Masataka, the successful
candidate, will. no doubt, be confirmed
by the emperor. The session of the diet
was formally opened by the emperor In
person May Is.
| On May 16. minister president of stateS
delivered his formal address to the house.
and there were scenes of great disorder.
The address was frequently interrupted,
and the minister was asked many direct
questions, some of which he declined to
answer. The division between the gov
eminent and the opposition is particularly
I sharp on the question of foreign treaties,
| the opposition standing for their rigid en-
/ forcement, and especially as to Korea,
! the government wants revision of the
/ treaties. An address impeaching the min
istry was brought in, but was defeated by
| five votes. Another address of censure
| is impending, but was introduced by the
party comprising the mass of the govskn-
ment followers. If supported by thee op-
position, the government must hen de-
/ feated- An anti-government newspaper
/ league of seventy-siX japanese papers
and magazines has oeen formed for the
purpose of opposing several propositions
of national policy and particularly to Sc
/ cure abolition of the present govern
mentS power to suspend newspapers A
newspaper league to support the govern
ment has likewise been formed.
! Canton is in serious alarm over a
] plague Of fever dysentery which has
made its appearance. In one place an I'M
confirmed report says forty deaths &C.
CURED in forty-eight hours. The authort-
| ties have issued proclantions prohibiting
the slaughter of pigs and the capture
/ of fish. The inhabitants are going through
! elaborate religious exercises to 1r1ghte2
1 away the plague.
i The Corean revolt had not been supI
pressed at last accounts. Statements as
I to its extent and the amount OF injury
already inflicted by the rebels, are con-
| ficting. One report says that ten thdX-
sand inhabitants of Zofu, in Zenra pr9V%
/ ince, arose and massacred three govern
ment officials, and then broke into the
I government store house and confscated
a large amount of rice.
i Soldiers were dispatched to quell the dis
j turbance. but found the populace so in
/ famed and angry, that they were able TO
do nothing. The Corean minister of war Is
now Ii Shogo, who recently succeeded
| Yen Chen.
/ A collision occurred recently near Pc
i nang. between the steamer Ngapoota and
Kwantung, in which over sixty lives were
lost The Kwantung ran down the
| Ngapoota in the night, and the latter
lflled fast and sank Passengers and crew
| 1oated about on wreckage and made pitt
\ full appeals to the Kwantung for relief.
The latter had a large hole in her port
side, and she Immediately made for land.
| OF 1873 paSseng gers on the Ngapoota,
lforty-eight are known to have been saved.
Some others were probably picked up.
The British ship Bidston Hall Is badly
ashore at Little Beacon