MISCELLANEOUS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 309, 20 October 1888, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Six Japanese ■warships have been ,dis^ patched to Corea on account of trouble'^ there. ' J , '■)?% The great annual fair, closed ab NijriiJ? JSTovogrod, September 7th, was the mosfc,^ successful ever held. - . ">'/& The Queen has granted a charter to the,V British and East African Company"^! I organized to promote commercial interests;^ in the territory granted by the Sultan of'^ Zanzibar and other palentates. On Sepi*^ 1 tember 7th, Fangani natives resisted the(l handing of the German Company' 3 officers : i and the Zanzibar Sultan's troops, that wore*]" exchanged, and two Germans wounde'd//\ The German man-of-war afterwards bom- "j I barded Tanga. There was great excite- '■ meni, and communication with the interior ' is interrupted. Caplain Beaker started on the 16th Sep- ■ tember from Brussels for the Congo. He proposes, with two hundred men, to" explore the north-eastern regions of the Congo State. It is reported that a company of French and Russian capitalists have formed an organisation, to construct a canal from the Caspian to fche Black Sea. The ertimated cost is 40,000,000 rubles. The Prince of Wales arrived in Vienna ! September 10th, to witness the manoeuvres . of the Austrian army. The military strength has been increased by fifteen new ■ batteries of artillery and four newcompanies of Bosnian infantry. The floods in Austria were increasing on September 13bh, especially in Tyrol. Travel and traffic were wholly stopped, ■ railway communication suspended, bridges and embankments sw ept away. The valley of the Adige was a vast lake, and hundreds of villages submerged ; many, exposed to the current, were swept away. Thie waters gathered around In isbruck, the capital, and threatened that place seriously. The people were working night and day to raise dykes. Three-quarters of Trieste were * submerged, ten lives lost, and immense damage done to property. The soldiers built an embankment.