Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 27 February 1896, Page 2

Foreign.

It is reported that King Menelek is short of food for his troops. The German Budget appropriates half a million marks to subsidise a I line of steamers to New Gum a. Russia asserts and will maintain the integrity of Corea. Immediately after the explosion at the railway siding outside Johannesburg, a red hot bolt from one of the trucks fell into a. magazina on the Rand, containing 400 ton 3 dynamite, but by the greatest good fortune it dropped into a pail of water. The accident fund has reached £100,000. President Kruger, who presides over its distribution, has thanked the residents on the Baud for their generosity. The Transvaal Government grants £20,000 to the fund. The recent explosion in Johannesburg, it has transpired, was caused by a locomotive colliding with a truck of detonators. President Kruger, speaking at a meeting of the Belief Committee, said the people had subscribed liberally, and might expect to receive a great deal in return. M. Berthelot, Minister of Public Instruction, replying to M. Deloncle, said the recession of Mongsin aqd Upper Mekong was a moral concession in order to render it possible to approach other questions in a spirit of concord and sympathy. He did not allude to the Egyptian question. General Pelloux replaces General Baratieri at the head of the Italian army in Abyssinia. A loan of 80,000,000 franca (about £8,200,000 sterling) for the purposes of administration in Tonquin, has been subscribed thirty-fold. The New York Herald states that Great Britain has accepted American mediation in connection with the Yuruani incident, which led up to the Venezuela-Guiana boundary dispute.