Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 20 December 1892, Page 2

Foreign.

Mehter wishes British officers to formally instal them in Chitral. The usnrpery have fled to ths Afghan camp. The Pope declares Freemasonry satanic, and asserts that it aims at replacing Christianity by naturalism. Eight dynamite bombs have been discovered in Cadiz. The Chamber of Deputies by a majority of six has refused to grant the Panama Canal Committee judicial powers. M. Ribot and Bourgeois have professed a desire of loyalty to assist the committee, but consider that the powers demanded would endansrer the .Republic as a diep laid scheme existed to launch a torrent of mud at the Eapublic under the pretext of exposing individual misdoing. M. Bris3on contended that the committee ought to be armed with peculiar powers, and the debate in the < hamber resolved itself into a struggle .between MM. Ribot and Brisson. The former carried the Chambjr at first, but influence was wanted, and many stormy scenes were the result. M. de Blowitz, the Paris correspondent of the Times, considers that the Cabinet will not resign, but that it is possible that the Legislative Committee enquiring into the Panama Canal scandals will resign and the Government will prosecute the directors of the company criminal'y, also members of the Chamber proved to have been bribed. In the Reichstag a Bill subsidising a German mail service to New Guinea to the extent of £12,000 annually instead of the Saunan service has been introduced