CRISIS IN SPAIN.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 437, 15 January 1890, Page 6

CRISIS IN SPAIN.

THE KING DYING. REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS FEARED. Madrid, January 10. The infant King of Spain is reported to be suffering from renewed attacks of syncope, though a later report says he afterward revived. His fever has subsided. Very slight hopes are entertained of his recovery. Senor Sagasta remains in office for the present in order to try and avert a revolution which is feared should the King succumb. An unfounded rumour obtained currency yesterday to the effect that Alphonso was dead. It is rumoured that the infant King of Spain is dead. Serious disturbances are feared in the event of the rumour proving to be true. The infant King is slightly better. His condition, however, is still precarious. Madrid, January 11. It is reported that Senor Zorilla, the Spanish republican leader, is in hiding in the Pyrenees awaiting the developments of the present crisis. Everything here is tranquil. The condition of Alfonso remains about the same, though symptoms of cardiacal collapse are less frequent. The Princess Maria Mercedes, the eldest sister of King Alfonso, who was Queen of Spain in the interim between the death of the late King Alfonso XII. and the birth of the present King, will succeed to the throne in the event of the death of the infant King. The Princess Mercedes was born on September nth, 1880. The ex-Queen Regent, Mana Christina, mother of the present King, has been so overtaxed with nursing duties that she has several times fainted fromexhaustion. CONDITION IMPROVING. Madrid, January 12. The condition of the infant King of Spain is improving.