THE CONGO OUTRAGE.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 72, 21 September 1895, Page 2

THE CONGO OUTRAGE.

M ■-.fOl.i LOT 'LURE CULPABLE. V: ;UDEAUX EXHIBITION ON FIRE. THE IRONCLAD PORTHNAU LAUNCHED. SIMS REEVES TO VISIT AUSTRALIA. (Per Press Association). London, Sept. 18. The prison hulk Success, over a hundred years old, after lying iv the colonies, made the voyage froni Adelaide and has arrived in the Thames. Tbe vessel which left Adelaide on March 81st is attracting a good deal of attention. | Tbe action of the French authorities in arresting natives within tho British Sphere east of Mekong in violation of the agreement is causing some friction. Mrs Frank Mitchell, who recently returned from Australia, committed suicide at Deanhill Farm by hanging herself. Mr Sims Reeves, the eminent tenor, who has married a young pupil, proposes to make a tour of Australia with a concert company. A thief presented a forged order at tho Union Bank, London, and succeeded in obtaining Mrs Langtry'a jewels, worth L 40.000. Brussels, Snpt, 20. The Belgian Government, in tbe light of new evidence, admits that Major Lsthaire is culpable, and he will be tried by the law courts for the illegal execution of Stoke 9. Paris, Sept. 20. The Bordeaux Exhibition is on fire. The ironclad Porthnau which struck on the ways while heing launched at Havre on August 21 has, with the assistance of British tug boats, now been successfully launched. By the explosion of a gas engine at Bordeaux the electric pavilion was destroyed by fire. When returning from a military review to day the populace made an attempt to unharness the horses attached to Gcueral Drugomvioif's carriage with the intention of dragging it themselves but they were prevented by his military escort. Tbe populace gave Princo Lobanoff and General Dragouiroff at the review of the French army. One hundred thousand troops marched past. Bombay, Sop. 20. Tho Governor of Goa, a Portuguese dominion, refusing to guarantee the pay of the men, 500 Portuguese soldiers broke cut in revolt and after shootiug the sentries marched inland. Havanxah, Sept. 20. Marshal Campos has senteuced an American captain to 10 years' imprisonment for running tho Cuban blockade.