THE PORTUGUESE IN AFRICA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2207, 28 May 1891, Page 1

THE PORTUGUESE IN AFRICA.

London, May 24. News has been received of an attack by Portuguese troops on the Chartered Company’s expedition up 'he Pungwe River, uhdeV the leadership of Mr Johnston. Seven 1 Portuguese were killed. )be loss of the English is unknown. May 25. The Governor of Mozambique declares the -Portuguese were attacked by the Company’s troops in the neighborhood of Massikesse. The fighting lasted several hours, and several men were ’killed on either side, Capetown, May 25. The attack was made on the Chartered iCompanyJfaxpedition by the Portuguese land their allies as it was proceeding up Ithe Ptingwe fiver. The attacking fores consipted of two hundred Portuguese and |fire hundred natives while that of the 'expedition numbered only sixty. Ihs fight took place between Massikisse and •Port Salisbury, but the loss on either •side is not; ascertained. The Portuguese authorities have closed the Pungwe river,

It is ,now believed that Johnston's police were escorting 350 miners to the IMasbona plateau and they were attacked When within the Company’s territory. THE MANIPUR MASSACRE. Calcutta, May; 25. iSenapatti, oommaadef-in-chief of the Manipars, has been captured after a severe straggle, i He was found about half a mile from Manipur, disguised as a iNuga coolie i May 26. Tha murderer of Mr Grimwood has (been executed. i SIR G. GREY" IN SXDNBY. Sydney, May 26. ! Sir .George Grey has returned to Sydney.' He has nothing at present to ?ay with regard to the, request of her Majesty the Queen to see him, but be a trip to England to see hie relative the Earl of Stamford, i Sir G. Gtey addrepsed a tremendoup meeting at the Centennial Hall this Evening under the auspices of the Trades Council. The building was packed and the speaker’s remarks were received with the utmost enthusiasm. The principal topics embraced in Sir George Grey’s ipeech were federation, elective Governors,free education, and the abolition of plural voting. I Mr Fitzgerald, who has just returned from a visit to England as a delegate of the Trades; Unions, said that if necessary the labor party would sink all other femands and cling to the “ one man one vote ” principle.

THE TROUBLES OF A PRINCE. Sx Petiebbueg, May 25, Since the Czar deprived the Grand Duke Michael of all military rank Jield.by him in the Russian Army, hwing to his secret marriage with the Daughter of,the Duke of Nassau, there as.been a growing disaffection among he .Guards, and it has developed to guch an extent that forty-six of the officers! hdye, by order of the Czar, been placed under arrest. I The summary exclusion of the Grand Duke Michihlovitch from the army (says a Home paper of April 18th) was caused by bis having contracted a marriage—which the Czar considers a mesalliance—with the granddaughter (J>f the national poet, Pushkin, the daughter of the Duke of Nassau by Jus morganatic Pushkin’s child, the Emperor had forbidden him a year ago to marry Oomtesse Ignatieff, the (laughter of the former Russian Ambassador at Constantinople; later his' mother, the Grand Duchess, had ordered him to refrain from entering into wedlock with his maid servant, and about a week ago the Emperor, bearing that he intended to marry his present wife, wrote a letter threatening—‘in case he carried out his intention—to deprive him of his ?ank and rights, and dismiss him from the army. To this letter His Majesty deceived a reply containing the follow' Jng passage“ lam unable to obey Your Majefijy’s orders, among other Reasons, because I have been married to tVe ladjr in question "for oyer five weeks.” It was to mark his sense of fhis act of drtbbedience that the Emperor published the ukase dismissing the Grand Duke from the army, and likewise issued a secret one depriving him of the rank and privileges of a Gfand D uke.