Additional Mail News.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1583, 16 December 1885, Page 2

Additional Mail News.

General Briere de Lisle, who was recalled from the command of the French troops m Tonqmn, has arrived m Paris. He gives glowing accounts of matters and things at the seat of war. President Grevy has decided m event of his re-election to send a message to the Chambers, advising the granting of ! an amnesty to political offenders without exception. All difficulties between Franco and China have been removed, and negotiations have been resumed. Mdme. Patti has been advised by her physician to retire from the stage at present. Her health i 3 poor. A cablegram from Paris of Nov. 21 saya a new pretender to part of Victor Husro's fortune has cropped up. He claims to be great-grandson of Hugo's uncle George, who settled m New Naples ninety years ago, and married an Italian lady. By accident, m the baptismal registrar the claimant's name was inscribe^ as Pascal Ugo. He is a shoemaker. M. de Lesseps' renewal of his application to the French Government for permission to issue new Panama Canal bonds to the amount of 120,000,000 francs upon lottery plans, has caused a still further decline m Canal shares. A revolution m Nicaragua is threatened. Civil war rages m Peru, and is likely to continue for some time. Terrible murders had been committed by Indians m the department of Ananchos. Colonel Manuel Antonia Piado, a cousin of the ex President of that name, and Major Fernandez, had been sent into the department to recruit soldiers. They were .set upon by Indians at Lecari and killed, and their bodies decapitated. Afterward drunken savages fixed their heads on poles and carried them m triumph through the town.