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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 54, 25 April 1877, Page 3

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Lee, author of the Mountain Meadow Massacre, has been executed. He nml .* a confession implicating liriglin.<n Young. He said he only did as he v/a ■■ ordered, and was promised celestial rewards. The confession caused gr^at. sensation at Salt Lake. J The Bashi Bazouks plundered and burned two Herzegovian villages, and murdered a number of the inhabitants. An Amsterdam banker offered Russia a loan of twenty-five million roubles at eight per cent., but insisted on disarmament and no further loan for five years. The offer was declined. The " Times " cites this as proof of the bad state of Eussian credit. It is said that at the recent Socialist trials revival, unexpected ramification of the. movement amongst the higher classes and the army were disclosed. [Russia has sent Montenegro twelve months' provisions. Small-pox is still raging m London. There is public excitement m Jamaica over the prosecution of the Press for sedition. Committees are collecting subscriptions for the defence. The trade depression of Germany has assumed serious proportions. Labor riots have occurred. A famine is feared m Silesia. Newspapers coupled their royal greetings with a wish that the Emperor may see a speedy recovery of the nation from its financial crisis. In Pennsylvania, 400 colliers and 60,000 men are idle. The Cretans refused to send an embassy to the Turkish Parliament. The British war steamer destroyed seven villages on the Congo Biver, West Africa, killing three natives, as a punishment for plundering an American schooner. The Court of Queen's Bench, Halifax, has decided that no evils are likely to arise from the seal difficulty. Chinese troops captured the city of Manas, and Slaughtered a large number of the Pungani insurgents. This is expected virtually to end the outbreak. Outrages are being committed by citizens of Chico, California, on Chinese. The Earl of Derby defended Elliot, and challenged his opponents to bring a motion raising the question befoi*e Parliament. He said a war would create greater horrors than those of Bulgaria. A new revolution is expected at Mexico. . President Disz's friends are forsaking him. The fortification of Trent, m Austria, is being earned out m consequence of a rumored alliance between Italy and Austria, involving the seizure of part of the Tyrol. Outrages equalling those of Bulgaria, are reported m connection with a new rising m Bosnia, the Bashi Bazouks burning villages and massacring refugees. Six hours fighting between a large body of Bosnian insurgents resulted m great losses on both sides, the Turks retiring. Active preparations are being made by Turkey to fortify Kavs and other positions on the- Asiatic fioutier, 120,000 troops are to be sent there. The Eussiau forces on the Asiatic frontier are estimated at 100,000. The number of famine-stricken men employed on the Madras works has decreased to 1800. Those on the Bombay works decreased to 37,000. There are violent scenes m the Transvaal Eepublic m opposition to President Burge's proposals for annexation to Britian. The life of the British Envoy was threatened. ' The commander of the Spanish forces m Cuba reports a successful campaign. The Pope's advisers are endeavoring to get France and Austria to revive the Eoman question. It is hoped to induce Italy so far to recognise the Pope's tempoi m al power as to cede a city to the Holy See, where all religious orders expelled from Eome could find an asylum. Amid the feverish excitement and unremitting labor at the Vatican relative to the consistory, the Pope has fallen ill again. On the 12th March lie fainted, and had to quit reading allocutions. These fainting fits have recurred, and the Pope has remained unconscious longer each time. He does not like his illness to be perceived, and makes a strong effort to hide it. The moment he gets back to his own apartments he sinks into his chair, and remains motionless, with his eyes closed, like a corpse. His physicians regard fatiguing receptions of pilgrims with grave apprehensions* The Archbishops of Naples and Perugia and the Vicar of Eorue a ye confidently mentioned as candidates for the Papacy. The Pope has been very ill* His life was dispared of,

A woman named Elizabeth Kirkbridge has been committed for trial at Penrith, charged with murdering and concealing the bodies of six infant children she has had during several years. There was a great sensation m court during ihc hearing of the case. A man she had been living with is the instigator of the crimes. He had left her and married. Considerable excitement was manifested some days ago on the discovery of a number of bodies m an undertaker's premises near the Regent's Park. An investigation showed that they were of still-born children, for the burial of which the man had received the fees, but had never removed them to the cemetei'y. A number of convicts at the naval works at Haul Bowline, near Queenstown, attacked the warders with picks and shovels. The military were called out, and charged the prisoners with fixed bayonets.