HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9835, 18 September 1897, Page 7

HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. INCITING TO REBELLION. London, September 16. According to a telegram from Cape* town, Galishwe, the Bechuanaland rebel chief, who was recently captured by a British force, declares that ha would never have rebelled had not the Transvaal agent incited him to do so and supplied his followers with arms. THE ST. AUGUSTINE FESTIVAL. The Cardinals and Bishops attend* ing the St. Augustine festival visited Canterbury Cathedral yesterday. Many of the priests kissed A'Beoket'B tomb. FROZEN MEAT TRADE. September 17. At a largely attended meeting of the Australasian Frozen Meat Committee a resolution was passed expressing satisfaction that the Australian Frozen Meat Association had accepted the principle of the concentration of shipments of meat, as advocated by the Committee, also that Mr R. E. N. Twopeny, who recently visited London in the interests of the Export Association, had prominently set forth this important factor in his able report upon the result of his visit. THE FRENCH ARMY. .Paris, September 16. At the banquet held in honour o$ the visit of the King of Siam, after the military review at Sfc. Quontin, President Faure, in proposing the principal toast, delivered a patriotic; speech, and said that a virile nation was ready to re-enter tho army on the first summons to accomplish the sacred mission of the Republic. THE SULTAN AND AFGHANIS' TAN. Constantinople, September 16. Three Afghan chiefs are on a viaiV to the Sultan at Yildiz Kiosk.