Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 8 November 1894, Page 2

Foreign.

The Czarina is completely prostrated tit the death of her husband, and her hair is turning grey. The body lies in state for a week in Moscow and a week at St..Petersburg. The Russian army has taken the oath of allegiance to the Czar's*Buccessor; ■ • The hew Czar Nicholas has published a manifesto, in which h« solemnly vows to make the peaceful development of the power and glory of Russia, and the happiness of his subjects his sole aim. He appoints the Grand Duke George, hia jounger brother, as his successor, until God shall bless his coming marriage with a son. - . The post-mortem on the Czar disclosed paralysis of the heart f com the effects of disease of the kidneys,- and also inflammation of the left' lungV;. The Kin^ of Benmnrk \rUl attend Lha funeral. ■• -- -• The capital is fejing.orer the accession of Czar Nicholas, . and. the public mourning for the death of the late Czar is postponed till Saturday. The aristocracy believe that Czar Nicholas, is likely to effect startling social and political reforms, part ; ally in recognition of the jugular demandg. • ■-' : """-■'.- The Wazirus attacked a' Punjaub frontier delimitation party in the North Shin country. 0 , The military escort repulsed them, with heavy loss. The Waziri3 crept on the camp of the delimitation party in the middle of the night, and rushed the pickets. The rebels were charged by ; a military escort, and a desperate harid to hand encounter ensued. Lieutenant MacAuley, two- native • officers and ii men were killed, and five European officers and 34 men badly wbiinded. The Waziris had 250 killed, besidps a Urge nurobfir woffij^ed^** Cavalry pursued the retoels among the hills. Prince Alisoff, a Nihilist living at Lugano, in Italy, boasts that the death of the Czar was due to the machinations oi the NibUister-who gradually poisoned him. by means of small doses. of phosphorus administered in his food. He also boasts that the whole dynasty is doomed. The Tamatave correspondent of Le Temps says that the Hovas have replied to the French ultimatum, stating that they will not submit to French rule until forced to do so.