Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 24 November 1894, Page 2

Foreign.

The funeral service at the burial of Czar Alexander occupied four hours, and was a very impressive one. Many of those taking part in it were moved to tears. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Daily News say that the Czar intends to abolish the secret police attached to the Court, and to permit freedom of the. press. Father Rossignoti, after suffering ten years' captivity at the hands of the Mahdi in Khartoum, has managed to effect his escape, and has arrived at Cairo. The Cologne Ganette declares that England and Germany will come into collision if the former continues to hinder Germany's expansion of her colonies. The paper makes special reference to the attitude adopted with regard to Samoa and the Now Hebrides. The Socialist members of the French Chamber of Deputies created a scandalous scene in the Chamber on the 20th inst. M. Guesde threatened that the Socialists would become revolutionary, if not allowed to be reformers, by resorting to bombs and the knife. The workers, he said, objected to an alliance with Cossack assassins. The Chamber by a large majority rejected these Collectivist doctrines. Dr Talmage has resigned the charge of the Brooklyn Tabernacle. The Germans have captured the stronghold of thfi Waziris, and have killed many of the natives, and, in addition, released 1500 women and children who were prisoners.

They also seized the Waziris' store of ivory, besides a large quan* tity of war munitions. Salvador Franch, the Anarchist, has been executed at Barcelona. In accordance with the civil law, he was placed in a sitting position in a chair, and strangled by means of a*steel collar. He died cursing religion and cheering Anarchy.