LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 3069, 3 September 1886, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. THE ARREST AND REMOVAL OF PRINCE ALEXANDER. RECALL OP THE RUSSIAN CONSUL. LANDING CHINESE SOLDIERS FROM IRONCLADS IN COREA. ATTACK OF A COREAN MOB ON THE SOLDIERS. MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS IN COCHIN-CHINA AND THE CHINESE PROVINCE OF SZCHUEN. SEVERAL VILLAGES BURNED TO THE GROUND. THE BISHOPRIC OP MELBOURNE. VOLCANIC ERUPTION and SEVERE EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS. SIXTY PERSONS KILLED IN AMERICA. STEAMSHIP MOVEMENTS. (Received September 2, 2.30 p.m.) Constantinople, September 1. The Russian Consul at Sofia, who is believed to have been implicated in tiie arrest and removal of Prince Alexander lias been recalled by his Govern ment. St. Petersburg, September 1. The departure of Prince Ddgoronki to Sophia to inquire into affairs there has been postponed. Hong Kong, September 1. News is to hand from Corea that, fearing; the Russians, tin- Chinese ironclads recently anchoied off the Coast and landed a party of soldiers, disguised. On the latter leiching the shine, they wore attacked by a riotous mob of Coreans, and competed to return. Repot ts have re died here of a terrible massacre of Christians in North Cochin-Chi mi and the Gliine.se province of Szchnen. A number of villages inhabited by Christians are icported to have been burned to the ground. (Received September 3, 0.15 a.m.) London. September 1 Tne Rev. Air Austin, of Whitby, wro h:\d been 01-T'd the Ihsltopric of Meibom ne, U, ~„-i •l,i-- decision as to acceptance. Anived. at Plymouth, to-day, Shaw

Savill and Albion Company’s steamship Arawa, from Lyttelton, July sih. Malta, September 1. A serious volcanic eruption has occurred at the island of Galita, off the coast of Tunis. (Received September 2, 2.30 p.m.) New York, September 1. A very severe shock of earthquake has been felt along the eastern seaboard, and in Alabama and in this city. The shock was felt strongest at Augusta and Savannah, in Georgia, and at Charleston. At these towns several houses fell. Sixty persons have been killed. (Received September 3, 0.15 a.m.) Constantinople, September 1. Several severe shocks of eaarthquake have been experienced at Symrna, but no serious damage resulted. (Received September 3, 0.15 a.m. Madeira, September 1. Arrived, this morning, the New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamship Kaikoura, from Plymouth August 28. Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriter’s Association : London, September 1. Arrived: the ship Waimate, fiom Lyttelton June 2nd.