FOREIGN NEWS.

Wairoa Bell, Volume IV, Issue 161, 2 September 1892, Page 5

FOREIGN NEWS.

Canadian Salvationists accuse General Booth of misusing funds and living in luxury while the officers of the Army in Canada are starving. General Booth denies the accusation of living in luxury, and accuses the Canadian officers of the Salvation Army of intrigue. He does not believe the rank and file will join, but it is stated the revolt against his authority is spreading. M. Leon Perrett, a Russian, has been detained, and his effects seized under the Safety of Defences Act, on suspicion of his being a spy. He was observed taking photographs of the fortifications of Townsville, Queensland. The Government are awaiting a report on the subject, and the result ef the examination of his effects. In the meantime M. Perrett has appealed to Sir Samuel Griffith, Premier, claiming to be a. mining export, and that he is preparing a report to the Russian Government on the mining industry in Arrstralia.

There is a further deficit in the revenue d ” rived by the Pope from Peter’s pence of fou 1 minion lire (about £l6O 000).

Six thousand troops are envoi oyed in thororrghly stamping out brigandage, which has so long been the curse of Sicily.

The Russian advance in the Pamirs is fomenting excitement in Cabnl and south of the Hindoo Koosh, and increases the necessity of an interview taking place between the Ameer of Afghanistan and Lord Roberts. Afghanistan is excited and India anxious at the position of affairs. Russian troops were occupying the left bank of the Oxus. China is demanding the evacuation of the Pamirs.