CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS

Manawatu Herald, 2 March 1895, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS

London. ' Nearly one-third of the . Great Eastern Railway Company !s ; employees are affected ]by the influenza. During the past weejt the death, roll from influenza in Lpna^n numberedlli. ' wT^ES Lord Bosebery has passed 'a sleegy^* less night, and his coj^ition^Ttr* causing his friends some anxj.ety'. '" There are 30,000 cases of influenza in Munich. The House of Commons, without dissent, agreed to a motion urging the Government to co-operate # wsth the Great Powers in convening "An international Monetary Conference. The miners imprisoned in the Whitwood Colliery have been rescued. >.-:r\-% Sir W. V. Harcourfc refojses, toj grant time during the present aiessipiL* of Parliament to disouss the Mineri' '« Eight Hours Bill. . J . i/* The Glasgow Corporation Police ' ' Bill, now before the House of Commons, fixes fines for conversing witij^ a lady in the streets, for exposing^ carcases of meat unless covered, an3'*'.' for possessing a paok of cards in a.^ private house. It also provides, for licensing and housing newsboys. The Bill has been referred to a, committee. s>~ The British force on the Niger numbered 800. " The capita] of the natives was ahelled, and the opferationsr were completely successful, though the position was vigorously defended by 1000 negroes, who were armed with

Enfields and aided by a concealed battery. Many War canoes were captured, and two sunk. The operations in the district are now ended, two warships being left on guard* : ; A special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph -confirms in" every detaj.l the accounts previously publisti^of the Armenian horrors. M says the Turkish soldiers woiw&d day and night in order to remove the traces of the massacre before the arrival of the Commission; Hundreds of mutilated bodies were thrown into a pit, and lighted petroleum poured on them, but as this course did not prove successful in*. wiping out the traces of the outrage, the limbs were afterwards taken out and buried piecemeal. Some 860 witnesses who would probably have given evidence before the Commission, and who relied on the promise of safety made by the Turkish commander, were murdered in cold blood. The correspondent describes the whole affair as one long and hideous tale of devilish atrocities on men and women.