BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIV, Issue 10786, 25 October 1895, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[BF -ELECTRIC TMHSRAPH— OOPTEIOBT. (Special to Press Association.] VENEZUELA. LONDON, Oct. 23. It is reported that the Governor of Guiana has been authorised to forcibly repel further aggression by the Venezuelans. A VISITOR. The Marquis of Graham, the eldest son of the Duke of Montrose, has sailed for Australia. RUSSIAN OPPRESSION. Count Tolstoi, in a letter to the Times, charges the Russian Government with persecuting certain religious sects which have been officially characterised as fanatical. He declares that they have , sent over twenty-thousand spiritual combatants as exiles to the Caucasus, expelled four hundred and fifty families, and imprisoned hundreds of women who for adhering to their faith have been violated. The only excuse given is that they are religious fanatics, and had therefore lost their civil rights, AN INDISCREET ADMIRAL. PARIS, Oct. 23. Vice-Admiral Cuverville, in charge at Cherbourg, has been arrested for censuring the reduction made in the navy vote by the Budget Committee in the Chamber of Deputies; OBITUARY. ROME, Oct, 28. Signor Boughi, the Italian statesman and writer, is dead. THE REVOLT IN GOA. BOMBAY, Oct. 23.

The Portuguese mutineers in Goa hold Governor Sattari as a hostage, and they continue wrecking churches and plundering people.