Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 22 December 1896, Page 2

Foreign.

It ii alleged that France and Bussiaare deputing over the Turkish financial reforms.

The revolt by the Druses, the people inhabiting the country north of Syria* and under the oontrol of Turkey, which broke out in June last, has collapsed.

The total fatalities from fcbs plague at present ravaging the Bombay district number about 1100 so far.

Owing to a panio having set in, quite 200,000 people have fled from the distriot.

The rebel* in Goa, a oity of Portuguese dominion, 260 miles sooth of Bombay, have sacked and burned the Treasury. The troops were called out and dispersed the rioterg. The Foreign Committee of the Senate, ignoring the counsels of Mr Olney, Secretary of State, urging that moderation be shown, has passed a joint resolution recognising the autonomy of Ouba, and that she tihoMid upijotuse wnU dpain for pesse. i

Id consequence of the action of the committee, New York stock* dropped five points in two hours. Many Governors of States have telegraphed their readiness to raise volunteers if the resolution is adopted by Congress. It is expected that President Cleveland will veto the evolution.

Mr Olney states- that. unless (he Executive officially declares that tbft decision will be revised, tbe resolu^*"*^ tion of tbe Foreign Committee reepectiog Cuba does not alter the attitude of the Government on the question. News from Manila states that the Spanish authorities are using the rack and thumbscrew in torturing prisoners. Forty nine persons were placed in a covered pit and suffocated. General Polavieja succeeds General Blanco as Governor-General of tbe Philippine Group, and ten thousand men have been sent to reinforce the troops there, \ All tbe spies arrested are shot. Several Pashas who were txiled to Taifa, 250 miles west of Alexandria, have died, and it is believed they were poisoned. Forty five of Abdul Hamid's wivei have been arrested in connection with the matter.

Ministers recommend the Saltan . that if the Patriarchate guarantee -c the good conduct of 100 persons, a - general amnesty to the Armenian prisoners will be *afe. The Patriarchate has offered to place the letders of the Armenian revolt and those condemned to death in monasteries, and has induced oner prisoners to declare their allegiance to the Snltan. Reports have reached Lisbon that the British police in ICanfoa, * tributary to the Portuguese in South Eiflt Africa, have expelled a Portu* gnese lieutenant who was engaged in surveying ft site for a military settlement.