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Highwaymen boarded a train in Samuel, Texas, and having exploded a ' dynamite cartridge in the train plundered the carriages. During the excitement the robbers escaped in the direction of Mexico, and the amount of plunder is not known.

In order to counteract the construction of the Siberian Railway by Russia the Chinese Government has decided to extend the TientsinKaiping Railway to the Northern frontier.

New Zealand long berried wheat is firm at 45s 6d.

Canterbury mutton, 4d per lb ; lamb s£d ; Wellington mutton, 3|d, Beef, hindquarters, 4£d. New Zealand hemp, declining. Fair to lnedinni is quoted at £21 10s per ton.

A train conveying French troops to the summer manoeuvres became derailed at Calmont, Chalandray, near Dijion, and fell over a steep embankment.

It is reported that 200 have been killed and many injured. Orders have been given to largely increase the German artillery.

The press dec'are the time is drawing near when the unity of the Fatherland will have to be defended again, and a second Sedan is possible.

The Grand Vizier has been dismissed.

Interviews are taking place batwoen the Emperors of Germany and Austria and between General Von Capri vi, the German Chancellor, and Count Kalnoky, the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs.

The German Government is secretly purchasing immense quantities of coal.

Ehodes, employed as a sorter in the JLondon Post Office has been arrested on a ehurge of stealing two thousand letters, from which he abstracted in the aggregate a sum of £20,000, as well as a large number of cheques and Post Office orders It is rumoured the Duke of Rutlaud is to succeed the late Mr Cecil Raikes as Postmaster-General,

A crisis is pending in Hayti, and General Hippolyte, the President, has strongly garrisoned the seaports. The Eev C H. Spurge n, who bad been gradually gaining strength from his recent severe illness, has suffered a relapse-

• News from the Solomon Islands and New Guinea states that a trader named Gunderson has been murdered and his store looted by natives of the first-mentioned island. At New Guinea the report was current, but not confirmed, tbat two missionaries and a native teacher have been killed.