Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 8 October 1896, Page 2

Foreign.

The Porte promises to allow the election of a new Patriarch by the Armenian Church, to proclaim an amnesty, anfi to grant reforms in Asia Minor, if the Armenians will cease their outrages. The rebellious societies declare that their patience has been exhausted. A Macedonian chief named Groutas has destroyed a Turkish detachment numbering 50 men at Gre vena, a town about 20 miles north of the Greek frontier. Food stocks are low in Upper Central India, and Californian grain is being imported into Simla. Telegrams declare that 80 cargoes would be welcome. It is said that Khaled, the Zanzibar usurper, who was protected by the Germans, will be allotted land in the German dominions/ and the press hints that he will also regain his sovereign rights. The Cologne Gazette states that owing to England's protest against the obedience, of the orders from Berlin, Abdul Khaled, the Zanzibar usurper, waa protected by marines and artillery. The English newspapers condemn such a needlessly provoking display, and question the ex territorial rights of foreign Consulates. The French authorities have arrested two Siamese postmen on the right bank of the Mekong river. The Czar has arrived at Cherbourg. It is estimated that there are 8,000,000 visitors in Paris. The Gaulois publishes au announcement that Italy, Germany, France and Britain hav6 agreed to an exchange of political refugees. In a speech at the prorogation of the Hungarian Diet, the Emperor expressed the opinion thai the peace of Europe was not likely to be dis turbed over the Eastern question. A Military Commission report that' the Island of Sardinia is. the pivot of Italian maritime defence, and urgently advise that it should be fortified.