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Manawatu Herald, 28 September 1895, Page 2

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the Spanish troops in a recent engagement, killing 400 of the latter and losing only 40 themselves.

The Moslems of India have addressed a petition to the Viceroy against the proposals to regulate pilgrimages to Me"c6a; Thejr urge that the iiitireaseci taxes on pilgrims nve oxcifios: ho-tility, arid their pi-uc ieal effect is to prohibit large numbers froal reafcHirig tile siireßt way to J?aradise. They also contend that the taxes are a breach of the Qaeen s proclamation of 1858, securing the religious rights of all the inhabitants of India* French trade reports show that the value of the exports has in the last r,hree years decreased £27.000,000. and that of the imports £36,000.000, M. Rochp, formerly Minister of Oommerce> ttompatittg 1894 With 1600* states that the loss is £50,000.000. It is reported that the Chinese Government Has refused to accede to the demand of England for the banishment of the Viceroy of Szecbuen on the ground that he is responsible for the reoent attacks on missionaries. Six British warships have been ordered to Nanking, which is the centre of the anti foreign movement. The Japanese have captured Changhua and Taijamfu after severe fighting. Sixty thousand Japanese are operating in Formosa » The French troops operating in Madagascar are dying at Majnnga, on the north-west coast at the rate of 40 daily.