Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 23 June 1894, Page 2

Foreign.

Norwegian anfl German Vessels are sealing in the Bearing Sea^4xThey contend that the ftw^; of the Commission does not Apply to them. , > r The plague in Chinatiisincrefsitig, the -natives being quite helpless to prevent its spread. . Night and day they paiwle; the streets firing crackers and carrying joss sticks. ■ •- : - ■; The Viceroy of Canton' has publicly offered sacrifices to propitiate devils. ; : •";- •^•• :: The plague now shows signs of abating. The Committee appointed to look inte the question of the Nicaragua Canal recommends the issue' of Btockf to the amount of £16,500,000 for the carrying out of the work, and that the work be supervised by three United States army engineer*^ v> % -*J M. Deloncle, addressing the Chamber of Deputies, urged that France should demand' the Ire* navigation of the Nile, and a fre*'. passage through Egypt. ■ ' ' The Transvaal Government is arresting Britishers who refuse to perform military service. Sir Jacobus de Wet, British Agent, has entered a protest in the matter. Intense feeling has been created among the British residents in Johannesburg on account of the i arrest of Kagli.-hnun for refusing military service. Tht> Pope, in an Encyclical, apI peals to the Eastern Protestants to 1 join the Roman Catholic Church.

Floods of an appalling c'h'arfccter have been experienced throughout Hungary. Thousands of houses have been swept away, while the loss of sheep and cattle is enormous. Numbers of peasants have also been drowned. The damage is estimated at six million pounds.