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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 68, 17 September 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

♦ I THE KUCHENG MASSACRES. | FIRE IN A NEWSPAPER OFW7-:. JEWEL ROBBERY IN LOXHOX. THE FRENCH IN MADAGASCAR. (Per Press Association). Shanghai, Sept. 15. The ChiHa mail alleges that Mr Mansfield, the British Consul in Foochoo, repeatedly refused to lead the rescue party to Kucheng until he saw the American Consul starting, New York, Sept. 16. The offices of the New York World were partly burned, but the paper appeared next morning minus the advertisements. A telegram to the New York Herald says that the report of the earthquake in the Honduras is untrue. It is reported that Vanderbilt has purchased the yacht Defender, and intends to sail her in regattas in England and at Cannes. London, Sept 15. It is reported that Major Lothaire has been recalled from Congo. Burlington Arcade has be broken into by burglars, and £1500 worth of jewellery stolen It is estimated that 3000 of the French troops have died of disease in Madagascar. One regiment, 2400 strong, has been reduced by death and sickness to 54. The Prince of Wales is visiting the King of Denmark at Copenhagen. The latter has been seriously ill. Paris, Sept. 16. The Sultan of Lokoto has expelled the Frencli from Yolo, on Binne river, West Africa. It is believed that M. ChallemeiLacour, Presidcut of the French Senate, is retiring from that office, and from the Senate on accouut of ill-health. Madrid, September 16. The Spanish Government is sending 2.">,000 reinforcements to Cuba.