WAR PREPARATIONS.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 18, 16 February 1889, Page 3

WAR PREPARATIONS.

'. BUBBIAN ARMY BEING INCREASED. St. Petersbl'uo, Jan. la. Russia is increasing h*r army by ti hundred thousand riflemen, and ten new brigades of artillery. The front ier ! guards in Turkestan have also boon largely reinforced. Calcutta, Jun. 13. A rumor has reached hero that Russian agents are perninding Blink Khan to follow the rebellion against the nod have promised him ussist- ■ lOffE PARIS ELECTION. • ■ " Paris, Jan. 1-1. Party feeling is running wry high over the Seine election, and loth candidates are spending immense sums of money. COLONIAL EDUCATION SYSTEM. >, I.oxkov, Jun. 21. The Right Hon, Jos. <'iiainhurhiin. speaking itt Birmingham, ivft-m-d to the spirit of disintegration which was L nmniferting itself in the colonies and t- in India. Advocating the establish- £ lUhmeirVoftfroe stlivols, lu* quoted tinML success wich hud followed the erection * of a sysnu of free oitncaiiun in AusB tralia anuNow Zealand. ■L thepanama camal. \ Aladrii), Jim. 11. nf TheSpnnvi Republican puny regards tim resolution of f?ei:a!or j jf& Edmunds (Uo.) in reference to the ! ? Panama Canons an infringement of, | thoir natioiial»iglit.«. lasiiixolo.v, Jan. 1 I i Three Atneipn cruisers are to he ; despatched to ip pthmus of Darien 1 immediately. \ Paris, Jan. 1-4. The Bank <>f \Wis has agr -.-.l t ( , issuo 80,000 fraU fresh capital for the further pro»objo:i of ihu Panama Canal. \ : pjOUTING atTerr.v LEoNE. , TERRIBLE.IIiot; liV THE ! 1 - MAXIApUN, i n.J ... i I

An engagement i|eported In".ween v tho uttthro police tf1,..,- mi English ■ commander, and tloauiws, when the now Maxim guns requisition by the poL ini'l ! : ! -0 na- : lives were killed. \ M ANU FAC PUKE V RAll/C AN ENGLISH MIWoLY. I I/writ j,i„. a. It is reportfid Unit in <\eqmnct) of i a monopoly huh! Ny EiigliV .iinmker:* in England and India in \ , the railway ceiipnnics in th -iiVvu inti r- j ests will he compelled to >Viofueluru 1 their own rails. \ 1 FOREIGN I.AHOi j A (.SAT ION \V< >I: K M Kty (R 1 AMERICA. j Nkw York, j Some excitement has licun^ u , lM ] ( by tne refu«nl of tho nuthoiL tl) , ( allow a hundred Al«atintis eugq] |,y • employers to After soitin negotiation. h'MVov^), o ( was subsequently j |BKarrangod, and the men were alyd ! Sfio come ashore. • | Sp THE PANAMA CANAL, j J Nkw Yoiik, Jan 2 s | j jjß> Five British warships have airl j ) BBat Darien, and another similar vel t been suit thither. \ t ■ ’ THE PARIS ELECTION. ( I'.uus, Jan. 22.L V, Floqnet is making com-csaioi. f«tO tho trine-shop owners for the purpose |H O { iufluonciug thu trade votes against Boulanger pi eposes to readmit tin D’Autnolo to tho rights of citizen Watt 'lfhe excitement in the city is inrrens and the feeling in favor of Bon! is slightly on the wane. |H the seine election. Paris, Jan. 24. mm Serious rioting is feared on Sumla; conaequenco of the election excite M. Floqnet, tho French Pro lllHnier, prophociea that tho Boulsnge jHKandidate will be defeated by eighty Boulanger denies he ha Hi; intention of proposing the renal An Dan d’Aamele. MH bMBS BUY and STANLEY. flrT SCAXIU, Jan. 24. ,„il Stanley are priaonen ,-i |ga aad baggage, at Khai