Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 29 September 1894, Page 2

Foreign.

British marines have heen landed at Lorenzo Marquez to protect the British Consulate. Portuguese troops have been despatched to resist the advance of the threatening Kaffirs, and the. British residents are guarding the toi?d. The Minister of War has informed a Hungarian delegate that the smalK ness of the consignments of Australian fro7ien meat sent by Mr Weddel to Vienna had not permitted a final, •judgment being passed on the-..prac-ticability' of its use for, the army. Tests made with regard to its nutritive value had, he said, given no un< • favourable results.

The French lNaval Commission condemns the defences of Cherbourg as inadequate. A Bussiai! frontier picket in the district of Kars repelled an inroad of Kurdish cavalry, killing twenty. The French papers report that Colonel Colville, lit Cairo, ( has received orders to occupy the junction of the Bahr-el Ghazel and the Nile, with a view to assert the British claims in the Equatorial Basin.

Tho French five sending 7000 men to Madagascar, accompanied by eigliL batteries of artillery.

There an; 7000 Kaffirs outside De'agoa. They pursued Portuguese settlers, capturing their arms and ammunition. Further rising of natives are feared.

The British marines landed at Lorenzo Marques in Delagoa Bay re-embarked on the grounds that the Portuguese protection of the British Consulate and residents against the Kaffirs is sufficient.