CABLE NEWS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1743, 29 May 1895, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

ATTACKED BY BANDITS. COMPLETE DEFEAT OF .THE / OUTLAWS. SERIOUS "LOSS OF LIFE. Paris, May 27. Particulars have been received of brisk fighting between sie French and accompany of bandits on the frontier of French Guiana and Brazil. * It appears that Dinner, the captain of a company of marines, demanded, under a flag of U truce, the release of- a Frenchman, who had been taken prisoner by the bandits. While negotiations were in progress the bandit chief .shot Dinner dead, and his followers simultaneously fired on the.marines. Severe fighting ensued, lasting for two hours, and ended in the complete defeat of the outlaws.- ■' The Frenchmen had five marines killed and twenty wounded; while tile bandits lest sixty of their -'number, besides having a large number, of wounded. The Frenchmen afterwards burnt the outlaws’ village. •■• ■ % -s - y - %-j

, : • Perth, May 26. ’ Magnificent specimens of alluvial 77 gold have been brought in. from M. Pherson and party’s claim (Siberia). Altogether 300ozs havb Feen , taken out, one |»iece weighing three ipduiids weight, j ,f Sydney, May 26. 1 ; -A . O’Brien won the League Wheelmen’s Mile Championship Test Eace, beating Melnnes and Lewis. He will therefore represent South Wales -'ey in the to be run in Melbourne next Satur- ' day; : ;"' ; ."-7 ‘-71 ‘ ~ ’ : - . . -.Shanghai, May2s. The public of Formosa has decided.-, j in favour of Tang Ching, d;lm lata 777 Chinese Governor,.who has beenV.deV 2TT. dared President. The intrigues between the-Coreans and Eussians dishearten the Japanese, and will effect, changes in the. Corean Ministry. . r<