Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 29 February 1896, Page 2

Foreign.

Dr Layds, Secretary of State for the Transvaal, has had an interview with the French President, M. Ifaure. The Volkstem explains that there was a misprint in its statement regarding the telegram sent to Dr Jameson. It meant to say that the Reform Committee had lent the telegram. The garrison at Kiang-yin mutinied, and killed the officers. The magazine exploded, killing 200 of the mutineers. The Pasteur Institute has dio« oovered a serum which is a care for typhoid. King Menalek has entered Erythrea, the Italian colony in Abyssinia. There is oongiderahla, anxiety in Borne about the fate of the Italian settlers. The Gouffre Mountain is slipping faster, and threatens to block up both the Gard and the Gordon Rivers. The American police have arrested 60 Cuban filibusters on board a British vessel at the Bermudas. The vessel was seized, and the arms and ammunition, with several bags of gold which were found on board, were removed. Fifty of the crew of the Italian cruiser Lombardia, which is lying in harbour, have died of yellow fever. General Cre3po, President of Venezuela, insists that arbitration is the only mode of settlement of the boundary difficulty. He is willing to guarantee the English and German railway claims. It is reported that President Cleveland intends to intervene between Spain and Cuba. The Czar has sent presents to the Sultan of Turkey. The latter has given M. Faure, President of the French Republic, his best horse, explaining that the present is a recognition of his joining Russia and Germany to prevent Lord Salisbury exacting reparation for the Armenian atrocities. The Novoe Vremya counsels Russia, Franoe and Germany to raise, the Egyptian question. Turkey 13 raising a loan of two millions in Vienna.