FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2438, 25 February 1888, Page 2

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) London, February 22. Twestv-skvex trains with Russian troops entered Bessarabia yesterday. A Russian Note has been issued requesting Germany and Austria to advise the Sultan to demand the departure of the usurper Prince Ferdinand from the throne of Bulgaria. The Note dots not • inply that recourse will be had to force. In the Note to the Powers, the Czar declares that the position in Bulgaria is dangerous to the peace of Kurope, anil the Immediate deposition of Prince Ferdinand is urged. The Czar promises that if Austria withdraws her objections to this course the Russian forces on the Galieian frontier shall be immediately withdrawn.

It is understood that the Russian troops on the frontier will be increased by 100,000 men in a very short time. At a meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, held to-day, a motion affirming the desirableness of changing the liseal relations between England and her colonies, in order to increase the trade of the Empire, was negatived. A proposal to reduce the amount of the postage to the colonies was agreed to at the same meeting. Italy, Spain and Switzerland will not be represented at the Melbourne Exhibition. There will be 300 French exhibitors. . .

At the annual meeting of the Colonial Institute strong opposition was manifested to the proposal of the secretary, to the effect that the Colonial Institute .should be absorbed in the Imperial Institute.

Mr R. C. Graham, M.P., and Mr Burns, the Socialist leader, addressed a large meeting, called with the object of bringing about the fusion of the Home Rule and Radical interests. Messrs C. S. Parke and O'Brien were present. The meeting was disorderly and ended abruptly. The Fisheries Treaty provides for the appointing of a mixed commission to delimit the Canadian and Newfoundland fishing waters, which America renounced in 1818, the time of the first dispute. Several points are referred to arbitration. The United States Senators are opposed to the ratification of the treaty, chiefly on th? ground of the tonnage tax imposed on American vessels trading in Cauadian waters. President Cleveland, in a message to the Senate on tne Fisheries Treaty, S lid that the settlement arrived at was a just and honourable one. Hongkong, February 21.

From further details to hand respecting the terrible earthquakes which wrecked the city of Yunnan, the capital of the province of the same name, it appears that the particular shock which wrecked the city also ruined the whole province. The work of destruction was completed in a few minutes. Immediately after the shock Hames burst out in the capital, and in villages throughout the province. Whole families were buried beneath the ruins of their homes