Foreign

Manawatu Herald, 1 October 1896, Page 2

Foreign

The Banian Black Sea fleet has arrived at the mouth of the Bos* phorus.

The Embassies, fearing their letters may be subject to espionage, are using pigeons to convey their despatches. The Emperor of Austria opened the Iron Gate Canal on the Danube on Monday. The function was maio the occasion of a most imposing ceremony.

The Peary Arctic Expedition, which wa? ice-bound in Greenland, has returned to Cape Brelton.

M. Carabon, French Ambassodor, in the name of Europe, has demanded that the reforms already granted to six villayets in Asia Minor should ba extended throughout the Turkiah Empire.

Tho Sultan has consented to coo* yoke the Armenian Assembly, and to the extension of reforms throughthe Turkish Empire.

M >taorological Conference at Parii ha < approved Mi' YVragge's sohema for tha establishment of permanent observatories upon Mount Koaoioiko. in New South Wales, and Mount Wellington, at Hobart. The rebe's in the Philippine Islands now number 15,000. They ara reported to have killed 100 monks, several of whom. they burned alive.

Eighteen Nihilists, including several eminent professors, have bean arr.-stsd in St. Petersburg.

Five thousand dockers havestraok at Hamburg for 55 pfennige (a fraction over sixpence) per ton.

Tin Laadville strikers, who attacked ihe miners who remained at work with rifles and dynamite, and destroyed life and property, have now re -Mined work at the old rate of wages.