HOME & FOREIGN GABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 125, 22 November 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN GABLES.

A. PRIEST'S ESCAPE FROM KHARTOUM. A WARLIKE THREAT AGAINST ENGLAND. THE SOCIALISTS IN FRANCE. SURRENDER OF NATIVE CHIEFS. (Per Phkss Association). London, Novvmb<rr2l The Parliamentary Committee of the Trades' Union Congress has invited the Premier to introduoe a Bill for the payment of members and their election ex penses. B ata vi a, November 21. The Rajah of Loinbok and many of his chiefs have surrendered. Much of the treasuro and arms captured from the Dutch havo been recovered. Catbo. Nor. 20. Father Rossignoti, after suffering teu years' captivity at the hands of the Mahdi in Khartoum, has managed to effect his escape, and has arrived here. Berlin. Not 21. The Cologne Gazette declares that England aud Germany -will come into collision if the former continues to hinder Germany's expansion of her colonies. The paper makes special reference to the attitude adopted with regard to Samoa and tuo New Hebrides. Paris, November 21. The Socialist members of the Chamber of Deputies created a scandalous sceuc iv the Chamber to-day. M. Gucsdc threatened that the Socialists would becomo revolutionary, if not allowed to bo reformers, by resorting to bombs and the knife. The workers, he said, objected to an alliance with Cossack assassins. The Chamber by a large majority rejected these Collectivist doctrines.