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Manawatu Herald, 27 July 1895, Page 2

England, Italy, Austria and Ger« many have agreed upon a common plan of action in regard to Macedonia, if it be found neoesiary. Austria has been selected to watch the movements in Macedonia, and prevent the insurgents seizing the. Salonica railroad. A body of 20,000 troops belonging to the Third Army Corps defeated a strong band of insurgents at Uskub, near Monastir, with considerable loss, chiefly in wounded. Eeports are current that the , . reserves are to be mobilised along*. 1 the whole seaboard of the Ottoman" ■ Empire. I M. Paul Krngeiv President ol jfche Transvaal, holding that his position is similar to- that of a sovereign, bitterly lesented Mr Chamberialn'i message congratulating him oil the | opening of the Delagoa railway. He believed the Queen ought to have personally telegraphed to him. . Letters give lamentable stbricfs of gross mismaniigement by French ■ officers f in connection with the stores of the Madagascar expedition, and state that the troops are being decimated by disease. " ■■• • ■ Great excitement has been caused in Brazil by. the annexation of the island of Trinidad, in the BoutU Atlantic, by England. - : • The Brazilian Government bai the island is pSfrt ot~th^Wßp^W<w* territory. ~ V The Sultan Jbaa amneßtie^ , aIL the Armenian political ' prißdttew-4»»^t those sentenced under the common law. ! --/I Reports from Shanghai state; thai <;. Japan demands an addition /of £7,500,000 to the indemnity for withdrawing from the^Liaotong Peninsula. V: ;f * ||