Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 12 October 1893, Page 2

Foreign.

Lord Ripon has cabled to Sir Hetuy Loch giving him full power to -represß the Matabele outbreak. Mr Cecil Rhodes has arrived at Fort Salisbury. The Biera Pungive Railway has been opened. A waggon road has been made with a terminus at Fort Salisbury. About I<t,OUO Moors have proclaimed a holy war, and again threaten Melilla. The Spanish Government is sending reinforcements amounting to 20,000 troops. The Spaniards have also seized a British schooner which was supplying the Moors with arms. The Ameer of Afghanistan declares that the British mission will convince the world of the friendship of Afghanistan to Eugland. News has been received from Morocco that the Moor? fired on a Spanish gunboat off Cape Tresfores, and the gunboat replied, killing many. A syndicate, which includes Colonel North and Baron de Worms, has purchased the Lower California Peninsular for £9,000,000. The | country will be annexed to the United States. At present it forms part of Mexico. Mr John Redmond, M.P., held a great Paruellite meeting in Dublin, I where he declared that Home Rule

for Ireland was in deadly peril through the Bill being shelved nntil the antumn session". Tlie mine owners and the men have agreed to hold another conference, when a proposal to return to the former rate of wages will be considered, conditionally on the railway and gas companies raising the price of their existing contracts. Relief committees at Sheffield distributed bread among the distressed people. Miners' wives fought for admittance to achoolhoitses which were used for the purpose, and I several fainted. The Mayors advise that the miners should resume work at the old rate of wages, submitting to a reduction of 10 per cent, early in I December.