NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume II, Issue 70, 5 March 1895, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

HOME AU» FOREIGN. Cairo, Marcli 1. The Mahdi failed to organise the projected attack against the Italians. Paris, March 2. M. Percber, editor of the Journal Egytian, published in Cairo, who secretely prompted the Khedive in his recent fracitiousness, was killed in a duel with M. Chat.tellier, mining engineer. They had a dispute over a colonial question, and the duel was arranged, Percher being stabbed in the lung. He died in a minute. London, March 2.

The steamer Norham Castle, on her voyage from Durham, sighted two boats full of castaways. Mr Whitehead, one of the officers of the steamer, swam through a heavy sea with a Hue round his waist, and a man from the boats did the' same, meeting him half way. The number of men thus rescued was 18.

The Shah of Persia proposes to visit England in May. The special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph confirms in every detail the accounts previously published of the Armenian horrors. He says the Turkish soldiery worked day and night" in order to remove the traces of the massacre before the arrival of the Commission. Hundreds of mutilated bodies were thrown into a pit and lighted petroleum poured on them, but as this course did not prove successful in wiping out the traces of the outrages, the limbs were afterwards taken out and buried piecemeal. Some 360 witnesses who would probably have given evidence before the Commission, relying on a promise of safety made by the Turkish commander, were murdered in cold blood. The correspondent describes the whole affair as one long and hideous tale of devilish atrocities on women and men. St. Petersburg, March 2.

It is stated that M. de Staal declined the post of successor to M. de Giers. M. Lobanoff assumes the title of Chancellor. Madrid, March 2. Three hundred rebels have been arrested in Cuba. The Spanish Government is prepariug a force of 6000 men to restore order in the island.