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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 24 September 1891, Page 2

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Intelligence has been. received here that General Balmaceda, distrusting the Junta's promise of a fair trial shot himself at the Argentine Eepuplie Legation in Santiago, where he has been in hiding since his overthrow, and that troops are protecting the body. The news of the ex-President's death was received at Valparaiso with great enthusiasm, and was celebrated by illuminations. Balmaceda is reported to have left a document, in which he declares that his generals were false and that he was surrounded by traitors. He asserts that he aimed at Chili's welfare and denies the charges of cruelty except in certain cases which rendered it necessary. Balmaceda says that Mr Egan, United States Minister, often urged him to compromise with the insurgents. He adds that after his downfall he intended to escape in the cruiser Almiranfce Condell, but finding she had sailed for Sanotoine, he returned to Santiago on the 2nd inst. The document states that Dr Uriburn, the Argentine Republic Minister, and another devoted adherent alons were aware of his being concealed until Friday last, when he was discovered by the Junta. Balmaceda was shot through the temple on Saturday morning. The Junta sent a commission to view the body. The excitement in Santiago is said to he indescribable and a large frenzied crowd demand the body. In a letter to Dr Uriburn Balmaceda stated suicide was the only escape from persecution. The news has not yet baen confirmed by "the Legation. Sir J. Paunceforte, British Ministtr at Washington, has complained to the United States Government that the North American Company has captured 13,000 seals in the Behring Sea, in violation of the modus vivendi agreed upon. Sir James Fergusson, Under Secretary for the Foreign Office, has been appointed Postmaster- General, vice Mr Cecil Raikes* deceased. Cardinal Manning has issued a special pastoral letter to his congregation, enjoining them to rear up 'their children as abstainers. Herr Richfcer proposes that German territory in the East Africa, Damaraland, and New Guinea should be sold to Great Britain. It is reported that France and Russia have renewed their demand for British withdrawal from Egypt.