Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 29 October 1895, Page 2

Foreign.

Russia has ordered her Pacific Squadron to Coiva to prepare for any emergency which may arise. The Rurik and other warships avo under orders to join the fleet f>rth with. Japanese popular feeling is strongly in favour of a Russian alliance. The limes' Hongkong correspondent deciares that; the treaty wiLh China grants the Rnshn fleet an anchorage ut Port Arthur ; the right to construct and manage the railway* connecting Port Arthur with Yladivostock via T^itsihar, and other comni: acial advantages outside of the most favoured nation clause, but reserves the right to purchase such railways after 20 years at a price not fi.vd. After a stormy debate, a motion of confidence was carried in the Government with reference to the strike , in Carmaux, on the Gjvernment promising to find work for those men whom the masters refused to re-engage. I Spain is arming six tran atlantic steamers, as she feai'3 thi? United I States Government and South American Republics will reci gaise the Cub in rebels as belligerents. The condition of the Czirewitch, the Grand Duke George, brother of the Czar, is oon-sid r d to be grave. The Guulois d cares that the Emperor uf Germany has promised to support Russia in the East.