Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 21 August 1897, Page 2

Foreign.

The Oomte de Turin was accorded a great reception by the populace on bis return to Italy, aod has been congratulated by King Humbert. The receipts from the Dingeley tariff are proving most disappointing, despite the rigerou 5 ? measures taken to ensure its collection. The Commercial Bulletin newspaper predicts a deficit of 100,000,---000 dollars under the new tariff. ,Tbe Porte, alarmed at the anarchy existing in Kurdistan, is mobilising troops in the eastern vilayets or territorial districts of Kurdistan. French capitalists have arranged to establish a shipbuilding yard on the river Neva, in Russia, for the construction of the largest battleships. An American torpedo flotilla has sailed for the Gulf of Mexico. It is suspected that it is to be in readiness -for the developement of events in Cuba in the spring. At the trial of Golli for the murder of the Premier, the prisoner defiantly attempted to justify the crime, but the Court refused to listen to his counsel, who pleaded that Golii was insane. Golli, who was found guilty and sentenced to death, will probably be executed by means of the garotte — a kind of steel collar with which condemned men are strangled.