NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3045, 3 November 1888, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

■ s London, October 81. News is to hand of a fearful atrocity committed .by the natives on the Guinea coast, West Africa, It appeared that , the Oltrika natives laved a hostile tribe called the Ogonis into their territory, and after a mock discussion set upon and overpowered them, killing 150. The Okrikas afterwards cooked and ate' the bodies of their victims. The British Eesident, lvith an armed p.wty, rescued ten captives, and restored order. The chief offenders were heavily fined.

The Earl of Carnarvon delivered a ledum at his country seat, Newbury, on' the subject of his recent tour in Australia, He referred in laudatory terms to the energy of' the colonists and the force of the Australian character, and said the absence of pauperism is one of the most noticeable features of the cojonics. The method of dealing with public lauds also came in for warm praise from the speaker, who expressed his admiration bf -the land • transfer system. Referring to the fiscal policy of the colonies, lie said the colonists were largely iii favor of protection.. "Mr Goschen, Chancellor of tlio Exchequer, in a speech at Aberdeen, said that if the demands of the Irish party were agreed .to it would.be equivalent to placing Ireland intlio same relation to the Empire as the Colonies hold,

. H.M.S. Amphioii has been ordered to the l'aoific station, St Petersburg, November 1.

Further particulars of the railway accident hi Southern Russia show that the train was travelling at press speed when the mishap occurred,

The dining saloon was wrecked and the sides crushed in, but the toof of tile car tilting beneath one of the sides shieMthe occupants from injury. The Imperial family was at breakfast at the time,

Several of the suite were killed in other parts of the train. The catastrophe is at present believed to be accidental, but there is a lurking suspicion that the Nihilists are at the bottom of it.

Following upon the de-railing of the train conveying the Imperial family, a number of arrests were made on suspicion of Nihilism. Among those apprehended were the special correspondents of the Loudon Times and the Standard. These gentlemen were sent, under escort, to Baku, but-succeeded in proving their identity, and were subsequently released.

M. do Giers, Minister of Foreign Affairs, : who entered tlio Asiatic branch of that political department in 1888, has been honoured by the Czar with a complimentary letter on the occasion of the celebration of the jubilee of his entry into'the-public service of Russia. His Majesty expresses his belief that if the peace of Europe is, to be endangered it will not be by Russia, for that country is not by any. means desirous of disturbing the existing order of things The letter is most pronouncedly of a pacific character, and in diplomatic oircles it is regarded as an assurance of peaceful intentions on the part of Russia,