Additional Mail News.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1485, 20 October 1885, Page 4

Additional Mail News.

CUNITED, P388J3; ASSOpiATIQN.) j 1 • Auckland, Monday, j The. massacre of .Gjiristiahs at .Ahnam ! was frightful. v The superior .of 'the col j lege and,a whole host ,bf Clii:is,tians were ' slaughtered * ; pell mell.: „-. Sjotne were j thrown 'inio>> the sea •: with their hands' tied belairid ! their' backs. ; Somer of thej missionaries tried 'to make a< stand with] muskets^' but '..were' ; soon - Chur^llfis, sciioois, ' and d^'ellinghouses, were ' evbry Where: burned. '^General de| Gourcey "promised tbsehd '^"gunboat,; which cauia, to |Jjii^hon s afte.t the place} was burned clown^ ahcl n'ev'er* fired a shot, [ owing^6;the;ahsence/pffordersijt ! . Capetown advices to the 3th September state that thT*"Congo cannibals attacked 'severalristations^oth .the. -^A-f rican Association j f and -roasted and, .devoured a nuinbei:' of whites;- ':'• r.uitm-yin . A Calcutta 'despatch of ■September 10th -says there is no d6iibt !i remains 'but that! a terrible famine is" imp'eikHn'g i'n lndia.| Crops in,the Jpeccan l have, all jailed for, want »os-ramp while m Bengal ,\hey. are' ruined by an excess of rain and floods. 1 The country for „ fifty miles about Calcutta is completely submerged. j It is reported that numbers of the Massaracs' expedition to Central Africa' have been massacred. > ' In the crowd of people before Madame; Neilson, prima donna, at Stockholm, on September the 23rd, seventeen persona; wei-e crushed to death, and nineteen, seriously injured. The singer is so pros-J trated by the affair that she has abanj doned her ebgagementSTt ■'^j^" i^ - -^ !