Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 27 September 1892, Page 2

Foreign.

Prince Victor Napoleon has issued a manifesto signed ' Napoleon ** demanding a plebeseite on the question of Royalty versus the Bepublic. r ihe Paris correspondent of the Times says the Prince would not obtain a million votes. M. Loubet, the Premier, and M. Floquet, in stirring speeches lauded the triumph of Republicanism. The latter declared it was necessary to grapple resolutely with the social problems in order" to solve them peacefully. Paris is brilliantly illuminated in honour of the centenary of the first declaration of the Republic, and vast crowds throng the streets with all signs of gaiety and enthusiasm. Similar festivities are being celebrated in the province. M. Nelidoff has presented to the Sultan the Note from the Russian Government re Bulgaria. The sensation continues. Two thousand students have been deported from Constantinople in vessels which sailed under secret orders. The Ameer of Afghanistan is reported to have posted a notice on the gates of Jelalabad warning the tribes that he has sent for two brigades of British troops to guard the banks of the Amoo-Darva river, for the purpose of repelling the Russians, whom he describes as tyrannical Kaffirs (infidels). Further Russian reinforcements to the Pamir expedition have passed through Tashkend, the military headquarters of Russia in Tarkistan.