GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5095, 5 August 1895, Page 2

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

Received August 5,10.35 a.m. SIIANGAIII, August 4. Four female English missionaries and one American, were massacred at Kucheng. Besides these, many other foreigners, including children, were killed or wounded. i St. Johns, August 4, Intense excitement has been caused in Newfoundland by the revelation that the Directors of the Union Bank overdrew two and a half million dollars, representing nearly tho whole amount overdrawn. London, August 4. The Geographical Congress will hold the next meeting at Berlin in 1899. The Prince of Wales yesterday opened at Southampton, the new Graving Dock, which is the largest in the world. The Queen has invested Sir T. Powell-Buxton, the new Governor of South Australia with tho Order of St. Michael and St. George at Windsor, London, August 4. Reports from Foochow show that among the Christians massacred in Kucheng were five female missionaries, who were tirst outraged. Bmhci, August 4, 6.20 p.m. London, August 3. M A colliery in Ardrossan, has been Hooded, and fourteen men drowned. Nkw York, August 3. The forests in Beaver Island, tho northern part of Lake Michigan, have been destroyed by fire, and 100 lives lost. Shanghai, August 3. Reports have readied hero of a great massacre of Christians at Kuclioug. St. Petersburg, Augusts. Cholera is prevalent in southorn Russia, and upwards of one hundred deaths are recorded.