Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 10 December 1895, Page 2

Foreign.

A native force ot Houssas from the Gold Coast has begun to march to Ashatitee. The latest Eastern files show that the massacre of missionaries at Kucheng has been fully avenged. The last prisoner found guilty has been executed. Altogether 26 men were beheaded, six others sentenced to exile for life, 2? condemned to 10 years' imprisonment, and four ordered to be chained to stone for three years. The Sultan ordered Said Pasha to reside in the Yildiz Kiosk, but he declined, and fled to the British Embassy. The Sultan is much irritated at Said Pasha's refusal of the Viziership unless Izzet Bey, one of the most favoured advisers of the Sultan is dismissed. He accused Said Pasha of aiding the Moslem reformers. Said Pasha and his eldest son, evading spies, made their escape, and reached the British Embassy, where they pleaded for help as their liberty and lives were in peril. £he Sultan sent several Ministers to the Embassy to negotiate for the surrender of Said Pasha, but Sir Philip Currie declined the request, and declared that the refugees would remain his guests as long as they chosg. Hia action has caused a tremendous sensation. Spies surround the Embassy, and British bluejackets are within. Said Pasha hitherto was anliBritish, aud very popular with the Moslems. Russia is arranging for the transfer of 40 of her torpedo boats to the Black Sea. Lord Salisbury's refusal to refer the whole of the Venezuelan difficulty to arbitratfon 13 seriously re* garded in Washington. The Bedouins seek to capture the European residents in Jeddah, as hostages by way of reprisals for re«< cent action arising out of the assaults committed on the British, Russian and French Consuls sonle months ago. Father Rossignoli, who recently escaped from Khartoum after 10 years' captivity, intends to return to the Soudan.