Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 31 October 1893, Page 2

Foreign.

Admiral Stanton, of the U.S. Navy, has been dismissed from the service for saluting Admiral Mello, the Brizilian insurgent leader. The South African papers are publishing statements to the effect that 500 white men, well equipped, are aiding the Matabeles. They are said to have chiefly been drawn from Johannesburg, Lobengula having promised farms to all vyho help him. A section of the Cape press stigmatises Sir Henry Loch's meddling with the company as criminal. President Krugeiy of the Transvaal Republic, considers that the Matabeles are more powerful than is generally believed, and that the Company's estimate of their strength is mistaken. Sir Frederick Car ring ton, formerly commandant of the Native forces in Zulul&nd, will shortly leave England for Mashonaland to confer with Sir Henry Looh. Sir Frodsriok goes out ' at the latter's request. Reports have reached here that

Major Adams shot two of ttingl liobengula's envoys at Tati, being unaware that they were envoys. Major Adams reports that the men were arrested on suspicion of being spies. They att-enipte'd' to escape, arid hence were shot. Sir Henry " Loch proposes to enquire into this, among other matters. The news of the men being shot will, it is believed, have an unpleas ant effect effect in England. Major Grey has left Maf eking for Tati with 800 Imperial troop's; Sir Frederick Carrington will command tile Beuchanaland police. The Natal newspapers join with those in Capetown in condemning the action of the Marquis of Ripon and state that the current belief is that the British desire to come to some arrangement with King Lobengula before the British are defeated. The column under the command of Major Adams has arrived witbin eighty miles of Bnluwayo (Lobengula's kraal) without opposition It is reported that enquiries investigated by Sir Henry Loch show that Lobengula's envoys were stabbed by British guards.