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Manawatu Herald, 10 May 1898, Page 2

M. Geard, French Ambassador at Pekin, has notified his Government that a Chinese mob has murdered a priest and two evangelists at Tung Kiang Chu.

The Manawatu A. and P. Association has a credit balance of £2463.

There are indications of a another disastrous conflict in the coal trade in N.S. Wales. Both the mine-owners and their employers are very determined in the attitude they have assumed in regard to the weighing question.

The Patea Chamber of Commerce is endeavourinß to get a sum placed on the estimates for snagging the river, and hopes by the aid of a small river boat, to tap the country for.about forty miles inland.

Madame Albani gave a display of resource and heroism, as well as her vocal art, in Adelaide. A crowd of 20.000 people assembled outside her hotel, and, the police being unable to control them, a disaster was feared. But Madame appeared on the balcony, gained a hearing from the heaving mass of turbulence, sang them a verse of the National Anthem, and sent them away quietly and in good humor onoe more.

The Foreign Ambassadors have informed the Porte that the first instalment of the war indemnity due to Turkey will be paid on behalf of Greece at the commencement of the evacuation of Thessaly, and the remainder at its termination.

In his speeoh at the Primrose League, Lord Salisbury referred to the splendid work performed for the Empire by Mr Cecil Rhodes (in South Africa), the late Sir Gerald Portal (Uganda), Sir Herbert Kitchener fin the Soudan), Sir William Lookhart (on the Indian frontier), Sir Claude Mac Donald (in the West Africa and China), and Lord Cromer (in Egypt.)

The cablecrammer's worry*as to where the fleets of the opposing forces are is very funny. It would be a new idea if the admirals were to advertise their movements. An old saying in England, when you have been a trip you are not talkative about is that you "have been a man-o'-war's cruise."

The ratepayer of Ohau have wisely returned Mr J Kebbell as a Warden for the Ohau Ward by 49 votes to Mr Jiilets 23 votes. Mr P. Stewart poled 83 votes against Mr Silvester's 65 and Mr Astridges 29 votes, for the Levin Ward.

Contractors are reminded tbe tenders mv t be sent in by noon to-morrow for work for the Manawatu County Council.

A sitting of ' the Asses ment Court has been fixed for tha 20th instant.

The English billiard players, C. Dawson and J. P. Hannock, sail by the Ormuz for a tour in Australia.

The latest reports from New Guinea state that a number of na ive prisoner.., detained in the police camp at Mambara, escap cl during the warders' absence. Tlie wife of one of the prisoners had ben n a ].w?d to visit the camp and secreted a k.if. lhe prisoners cut through their band*, aad, with the assistance of bush trib: •_., _. tacked a friendly native village, the inhabitants of which they suspected of treachery. They killed and ate 18 m.n and carried off all the women.

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