Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 7 February 1895, Page 2

Foreign.

M. Rochefort received a tre'mend--0113 ovation on his arrival in Paris* Fifty thousand Socialists met him at the station, and.be was greeted with frantic cheers. Despite the initnense ooncourge there was no disorder." A fierce debate 'tobk place in the Chamber of Deputies, the Government being violently attacked over a contract given to an : English firm ' for the transport of war material to ;, Madagascar. ••'• '-'" A Though £24,000 were saved by the transactions, the Socialists a,nd ? Piotectionists strongly opposed it, i and were loud in .abusive epithets' against Great Britain. At a congress of millers at St. Petersburg, it was resolved to export flour only to Great Britain, Egypt, Asia l\linor, and places on the shores of the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. Mdme. Joniaux, the Belgian prisoner, has been sentenced to death at Brussels^ 'for poisoning a number of her relatives. The trial occupied 21 days. On the Judge pronouncing sentence of death, the unfortunate woman fainted. The sentence was greeted with frantic joy, and cries of " Lynch her," and the prisoner was jeered as she was conducted back to the cells* - Madame Joniaux appeals against the sentence of death passed upon her. New has been received thatilf French ti'oop3 have occupied Mb* janga, the chief port on the northwest of Madagascar. News has been received that Kaffirs, under a flag of truce, attacked the Portuguese at Delagoa Bay, and killed 70 of their number.