Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 3 October 1896, Page 2

Foreign.

The SuU-an has exiled his second wife, bring suspicious that she was conspiring with the heir-apparent and the deposed Sultan Murad, who were beseeching her to warn him (Abdul Hamid) of the suicidal policy which he was following. Five large steamers have been added to the ftasaian Volunteer fleet; in the East. Tue French Foreign Office asserts that the Czar stated at Balmoral that if England would, by £ome act, banish the suspicion that she is. influenced by ulterior motives, Russia would join in a stern move to settle the Armenian question. Many Sofcas (theological students) have been deported to Anatolia in. connection with the dissemination of treasonable placards. A large number of Armenians Buspeoted. of assisting in the assault on the Turkish soldiers prior to the recent massacre have been sentenced to death, while the Moslems convictsd of murdering the Armenians only got 15 years' imprisonment. Austria has virtually agreed to recognise Tunis as French territory, and in return France has accepted the Außtro-Italian commercial treaty. England, however, claims the mostfavoured nation treatment, and so far as she id concerned the Tunis question remains unsettled. A burrioane has swept over the Atlantic States. There was oonsidurable loss of life, especially in the town of Savannah. The drought m India has damaged the crops, and grain riots have occurred in some centres.