EUROPEAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 246, 19 September 1883, Page 2

EUROPEAN NEWS.

[per waihora at ths bluff,] [Age Specials j (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) * . • "LozraoN, September 4. The latest intelligence' from Anam is that 15,000 Chinese troops, who were recently reported as having crossed the frontier, are no* advancing on Haiphong, one of the French garrisons m Anatn. During the gale which prevailed along the South coast of England 'on Sunday and Monday, the iron ship Lady Jocelyn, trading between London aoa New Zealand, suffered considerable damage. She has put into Spitlieai for | repairs. A national political journal published m Paris expresses a hope that the French war-vessels Bcuat and the Deotrqei, which sailed from Noumea recently fop the New Hebrides, will prevent Australia frota annexing those islands. An investigation has been made into the poisoning of a number of labourers who were working m a field near New itoss, Couuty Wetford. It now appears probable that the poisoning was the result of an accident. The Marquis of Hartington has expressed his opinion that Prance has not satifaotorily explained the action of Admiral Pierre m detaining the oaptain and ofljcers of the Knglish warvessel Dryad at Tamatave. He thinks * that further and ii;Uer explanations should be insisted upon. Hevere weather which recently prevailed m England has destroyed one third of the hop crops. ' ; September 9. The Government of Russia has decide J on a series of reforms to be introduced into Koumania, '

General Hicks, lea 'er of the f ore 8 who hnv« for some time past be nenffI ged I id the campninn agninsfc-Wtiradxtr tb« Wse prophet of Soudan,! w now advancing his troops with a vew ofre capturing El OHdi ; capital the town of.Korkufau, Centra! Africa The anti-European : feeling _Y h J« nrecently manifested itself amongst the Sereydenfcin Uy BDreadine tp other towns m qhitfa. At Tone Kong Ac Chinese havl aesuraed cock o{Sja»«7. »««»« to '°''^J" BlOnS Ot JU'iyCOl.^^.-SV r # Tj< n|? Iranian, j§?ft^P^!y W^fffl.-*! 811