HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 220, 23 January 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

THF RUSSIAN FLEET IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. THE FRENCH IN TONQUIN. ] MASSACRE IN WESTERN AFRICA. ] i _ i (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ! i London, Janunry2l. |i News has been received from the West Coast of Africa to the effect that the - Sofa slave dealers pillaged villages iv the ' interior, and massacred wornenfand children. A British force surprised them killing 250 of their number, and wetting free 400 captives. < The details of the defeat inflicted on < the Sofas in West Africa show that the ! engagement was decisive. There were ] 77 prisoners taken, and 400 slaves released, hut many had been previously butchered. '• Sr. PETKBSbunG, January 21. Russia is sending the warship Rnrik. ' 11,000 tons, to Mediterranean waters. ' HokG Kojcg, January 2i. ( A band of Tonquin pirates caught a '■ French force in ambush, at Caihuih, and ; killed and wounded twenty-two of their number. Calcutta. Jannary 21. Lord Elgin met with a brilliant recep- J tiou in Bombay. In reptying to the greetings, the Viceroy said he was cer- ' tain he would enjoy support of a loyal people. San Francisco, January 21. News has reached this city that the natives of Aana have rebelled, and have proclaimed Tamasese King. The natives resist the general disarmament. Paius. January 21. The French press is publishing reports to the effect that the King of Italy is seriously thinking of abandoning the country. Queen Margherita is represented as being always in tears, and passing whole days iv prayer. Few Yobk, January 20. It is reported that the ( bief of Police in Jacksonville, Florida, has sworn in 400 special constables to arrest the Stato militia if (he Governor's orders to the mihtiato stop the Corbett-Miichell 6gbt are disobeyed.