Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 19 September 1895, Page 2

Foreign .

It is believed that M. ChallemelLacour, President of the French Senate, is retiring from that office, and also from the Senate, on account of ill- health. The Sultan of Lokoto has expelled the French from Yolo, on the Bmne River, West Africa, A balloon, containing an aeronaut and three passengers, collapsed at Charleroi. All the occupants were killed. The China Mail alleges that Mr Mansfield, British Consul at Foochow, repeatedly refused to lead a rescue party to Kucheng until he saw Mr Hixson, the American Consul, starting. The Spanish Government is sending 25,000 men as reinforcements to Cuba. The Turkish soldiery, being unable to trace a band of agitators in Macedonia, seized and tortured a number of Bulgarian notables. A telegram to the New York Herald states that the report of earthquakes in Honduras is untrue. The offices of the New York World were partially burned down, but the paper appeared next morning, minus advertisements. It is reported that Mr Yanderbilt has purchased the yacht Defender, and intends to sail her in regattas in England and at Cannes. The American gold reserve ia 96 millions. Through the Morgan Felmont syndicate helping the Treasury until October, gold exports to Europe have been resumed. A fresh issue of bonds is imminent. Owing to the absence of British marines at Kucheng, and the fact that there are no Warships at Foochow, the Chinese are reducing the enquiry into the recent massacre to a mockery. Prisoners are daily released, and the British Consul flouted. General Booth has had a success* ful mission to the Cope, where he has obtained a gift of 20,000 acres of land in Swaziland. He has sailed for New Zealand.