Foreign.
The nuns who escaped from Khartoum report that 50 Europeans are still captives at Omdurman. The Magistracy of the City of Vienna, has closed the Methodist Church, and inhibited the pastor from preaching because he declared the article of belief in the sacrifice of the Mass a blasphemous fable and a dangerous deceit, and was ofcbervrise insulting to Catholics. The Russian Government is endeavouring to float a railway loan in Berlin. Five thousand cases of influenza have been reported in Copenhagen in a week, the King and Queen being among the sufferers. The Russian Government refuses to accept the monetary assistance toward the famine- stricken peasants proffered by the Italians and Germans, and a resident in St. Petersburg had much difficulty in inducing the (Government to accept casual aid from England, including £100,000 subscribed by the Quakers.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 22 December 1891, Page 2
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138Foreign. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 22 December 1891, Page 2
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