Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 9 June 1894, Page 2

Foreign.

Owing to theduoessant opposition displayed in the Chamber of Deputies to the financial proposals of the Government, Signor Cnspi./hw resigned. The Ministry will probably be reconstructed, ,,burt r tl^,Bspent Ministers of Finance and'^orkdWili not be included in the heWoC&binet. The Turkish /Govejwi|enfc; lt( has issued an eight million equation loan. Germany has declined fo/assent to the Congo treaty. ' 'yr'*'^. The strikers at McKee's; Fort, Pittsburg, have mounted three cannonson an eminence commanding a line of railway along which the train bringing marshals and troops must pass. ,_. Six thousand strik6rßa!t|_j|estroying property in the vi^^iof the town. ■ . .': V : "'/£&?s In Ohio the strikers haye^Kwkaded the railways. "V '-Ijr;, The strike at Cripple has been renewed, and the..jptiij£ierß have occupied a fortified camp f from which the police are preparing.! to forcibly eject them. . ? The Senate will appoint a Coramission to enquire air to the amount of distress prevalent throughout the United States. The floods in the Fraser River district are increasing, ,/. „. The towns along the course; of the river are in darkness, the gasworks being flooded. The devastation is appalling. Whole hamlets have..dfsar/psared into the raging torrent. s - /n «* In the Chamber of Deputies M. Gusset, a Socialist member, challenged the allegations of.' General Gulliffet, head of the French Army, as to the condition of the troops, and questioned their fighting ca^dcity. His speech provoked a ' siofm of protest from othe^ members, who cheered M. Gulliffet. \