GENERAL SUMMARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1461, 22 September 1885, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY.

Dates 'from] Europe to August 28. Several thousand unemployed working men assembled at Hackney on tho 27th; and adopted a resolution demanding that Government assist them to emigrate. A British man-of-war left Aden on the 28th August to occupy Ambo, situated on Tugooralo Bay^ JEast Africa. The object is to anticipate the occupation of the place by France. _ "On the evening of August 26, an infuriated mob invaded a'hall at the Eastend of-London, where /several Mormon missionaries"were preaching and made a complete wreck. The Elders fled for their lives, buf; several were captured and terribly maltreated. The cause of the attack was stories set afloat that these missionaries had been. systematically kidnapping young women, and shipping them to Utah to be "sealed '-to rich Mormons. ; The Highland clans gave a grand reception to Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenburg. :.•_ . : A hostile crowd assembled at the. Hall Depot, on August 25, to meet General Booth, of the Salvation Army. He was hooted, and several attempts were made to reach his carriage. The 'police had great difficulty m preventing the;inolr from injuring him. He was struck seye-.. ral times with missiles:":. '. . . : ,",',., The/yacht Kallaffisbwaa frunintb.fl.n'd sunk by a steamer off Obah, Scotland, on August 22, all . on board,', including theo owner (Mr Crossman) arid his wife, lost, excepting twoV'. Letters troin Toriquin, August 19, says: the treaty of Tientsien is a dead letter as far the; evacuation of the country by; the, Chinese is concerned. The troops have.; refused to return to China, or to disarm, and are forming a strong army of irregulars to attack the French. , „ A rich maiden lady^ named Mentray, recanMv disappearciV from her residence at Paris, anrl.a fem-le servant gave 6ut that her mistress had entered a convent,,. leaving the managament of her. property, m her (the servant's) hands, and sent for. her own relations to occupy, tlioi-hrfuse?.-. The police, becoming suspicious, entered: the place on the 20th, and discovered;the body of the lady buried m the garden.; The servant and her relatives were all arrested. ■' .^---_ The French Government, alarmed at the great number Of German ~ spies discovered m avious parts of France,' have decided to order the exclusion of v all Germans who cannot give a good reason for being m tlie: country^ r ,