MISCELLANEOUS.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 221, 24 September 1887, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

A shell exploded at Wakholm Port, which commands the approach to Stockholm, August 11, and killed nineteen men besides wounding many others. Two petards were exploded on the mornof August 11th on the staircase leading to the office of the Minister of the Interior, Madrid. Fortunately no damage was done. Aga^gof murderer^ have been arrested, at I'ieiot, European Turkey, according to a Belgrade despatch of August 13. Their victims during the past t\\ o years number sixty. I)i>gui=ed i\* gensdarmes, the assassins pretended to arrest travellers for various oflences and robbed and killed them. A deputy of the Prefect of Pierofc was the first person arrested for complicity in these crimes. It i-« believed that political motives led to the commission of the murders. Two French newspaper men and Prince Alexander's groom were among those killed. The death was announced at Constantinople on August 14th of J3h/am Agba, the Sultan's chief eunuch and confidential adviser, who viitually directed the State affairs of Turkey. A great conflagration occured at Scutari, August 10th, and before it was controlled and extinguished one thousand houses and two churches were destroyed, and two women and a child burned to death. Thousands of persons are homeless. The population of Scutari, which is a suburb of Constantinople, is estimated at GO,OOO. The condition of the Servian finances is deplorable. A commission appointed to investigate has advised the Finance Minister to order the sequestration of the property of his predecessor. 1200 members of the German War Veterans ! Association arrived in Metz on August 17th,, and proceeded to the battle field of 1870, where they decorated the graves of their slain comrades. A despatch from Bombay, August 19th, says Taimur Shah and two officers at Herat have been executed by the Ameer of Afghanistan in consequence of 'having conducted secret negotiations with Ayoub Khan, the cousin of Abdurrahman, the Ameer. Therealis, his old General-in-Chief, and for some time past a pensioner on the Ameer's bounty, has been placed under arrest, chai'ged with a similar offence. The Ameer haj ordered the compulsory enlistment of able-bodied men among the Candaharis who have refused to render volunteer services. The Archduchess Marie-Joseph-Louise* Philipine-Elizabcth-Pie-Angelique- Marguerite of Austria died August 25, of puerperal fever, at Vienna. Belgian and English fishermen engaged in a riot at (Mend on August 23rd. The gensddarmes quelled the disturbance, seriously wounding several persons in doing so. The " Cologne Gazette " says negotiations will shortly be opened between Germany and France regarding expulsions. France reserves the right to retaliate for expulsions from Alsace-Lorraine. The west-bound passenger train of the Southern Pacific railway was " held up " and robbed on August 10th, near Papago, Arizona, by four men. The train was partially wrecked, the engine thrown off the track, and firemen and engineer injured. The express car was blown open by giant powder, and the robbers secured about §3,000.