Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 23 June 1896, Page 2

Foreign.

The French Cabinet has ordered the suspension of the salaries of the priests. The latter were marching through tha streets as a protest when the municipalities prevented them. The St. Louis Republican Con* vention by 800 to 106 adopted a gold standard of coinage as a plank in the platform of the party. The reference made to the Monroe Doctrine, Cuban autonomy, refusal to allow foreign Powers to interfere in Hawaii, the purchase of the Danish West Indies, and the hope that the European Powers will eventually withdraw from America, and .that in the meantime they will not be permitted to extend their territory in this hemisphere, were the passages in the platform that were most loudly applauded. The silver men protested that they had been betrayed, and 21 of them retired from the Convention, being hissed as they went. Major McKinley received the nomination of the party on the first ballot by 662 votes, as against 800 divided amongst the five other candidates. Mr Reed secured 84. The excitement during the ballot*, ing was at the highest pitch. As further details of the recent earthquakes come to hand the catastrophe is shown to be of appaling magnitude in Japan. The tidal wave which followed the shocks devastated 70 miles of country along the north-east coast, and no less than 10,000 people were swept away. The Druses, th« people inhabiting the district to the north of Syria, and undtr the control of Turkey, have broken out in revolt, and massacred four oompanies and captured their guns.