Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 17 September 1895, Page 2

Foreign.

A Chinese mob stoned the British Consul, Mr R. W. Mansfield, at Wenchow. News has been received at New York that violent earthquakes have been felt in Honduras, and voloanic eruptions have occurred on many points of the Yatapan Mountains, the flames shooting up one hundred feet highfWhile immense BtreaHis*of lava are running down the/inoun tain sides. : v Four hundred lives have been lost, including 80 soldiers. Enormous damage has been done to houses, and the loss of live stock is very heavy. France and Russia are inclined to accept the last proposals of the Porte witl} respect to Armenia. Great Britain, however insists that the Powers shall be represented on the controlling Commission, also that tho valis, or Governors-General, one of whom is appointed to each vilayet, and the mufce-sariffs, who have control of the provinces, shall include Christians. Cholera is still prevalent in Hono» lulu. Thirty-one natives have died of the malady since August ISth. News has been received that the Portuguese troops defeated the chief SJichabaha at Lorenzo Marquez, killing 300, and losing six. The Cape Government intends to despatch two farmers to Australia to enquire into the methods of growing wheat which enable the Cape farmers to be undersold in their own market.