Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 23 May 1893, Page 2

Foreign.

The Chicago Exhibition ia to be kept open on Sunday, despite the .fierce opposition of the officials. This action of the authorities will entail the forfeiture of half a million sterling granted by the Congress. The details of the ina&sacre at Koinbi, in China, show that a band of marauders burnt houses, shops, and a theatre during a festival. Two thousand people perished iv the flames, and JO women were abducted. ! The Russian Government have decided to reinforce the troops in the Pamirs, with a view of constructing roads there. N'pws from Siani states that an Annamite column attacked the Laotian tribe at Ivhong. Most of the French officers and many of the Arinamite soldiers were killed. The King of Siam has expressed regret for the Siamese attack on the Fvpiioli troops at Khong. i A platform ufc n Women's ("ou"Tes>\ iv Chicago, collapsed, Seventy live people were hurt, eight seriously. The Czar has abolished the corporal punishment of women in Siberia. A serious land slip has taken place at Vaerdal, a village of Norway, 45 miles north east of Trondhjem, at the head of its fiord. Twelve large farms suddenly sank and their place was converted into slimy land. Forty farms have been submerged. A hundred bodies have been recovered.