FOREIGN ITFMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 176, 17 September 1879, Page 3

FOREIGN ITFMS.

The people of Prague were thrown into a state of feverish excitement lately by the report that Jan outrage of more than violence and atrocity had been committed, in open day in one of the thoroughfares of the city. A little after mid-day two young men, brothers, named Wonn, entered the jewellery establishment of Joseph Report, shut the entrance door, bnrred it, drew out six-barrelled revolvers, and proceeded to fire shot after shot. The report of the firing and the shrieks of the inmates quickly brought together a crowd, who forced open the door. A" terrible scene.met (heir eys. A girl, the' sister of the murderers, lay on the floor in her death agony. The wife of the proprietor, dripping with blood, an infant in her arms,, which she was trying- to save from tlie murderous blows of one of the brothers. Kepor*: himself was covered with blood, and striving to protect his wive and child. 11l a corner of the shop another brother lay in a pool of blood. The police, after a struggle, succeeded in arresting-and binding the murderers ; I ait they hud .great difficulty in saving them from the fury of the "mob, \yho wanted to lynch them on the spot. The motive of the crime is believed to be mere revenge. Kcport had reported to Vne police that the si'-tcr, who, with one of her brothers, was in his employment, had been illtreated by the other two brothers. For this they had three days' imprisonment. They had just been discharged, and went straight to.the shop to he revenged on The result of the outrage is, two persons murdered, and seven others more or less severely wounded.—'Times,' July 7. Conflicting, current rumors with reference to Eurniii.li .are unreliable. Certainty now exists, that relations'are critical. Diplomatic relations have been broken off, anci orders have been given for the withdrawal of the staff and mission from Mandalay. . Cabul is completely in (he hands of the •mutinous soldiers, who have locked the city up, and are commiting revolting outrages on the inhabitants.