HOME AND FOREIGN.
Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.Copyright. NEW MAIL ROUTE. Belgrade, September 10. The Servian Government is urging a trial of the Continental route via Salonica, with a view to its possible adoption as an alternative to the present route for the Indian and Australian mails by way of France and Italy. Later.
England has arranged with the Servian Government for the passage of Indian mails through that country. RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE IN RUSSIA. St. Petersburg, September 10. The Government intend to banish to Siberia any persons found guilty of proselytising orthodox .Russians. The decree is specially directed against the Stundist Puritan sect in South Russia, said to be descendants of Russian soldiers converted from the Greek Church by German missionaries. SOCIALISM IN FRANCE. Paris, September 10. M. Jules Simon in a letter to the Press says that Socialism is the greatest danger the Republic has to fear. The reception given to the French fleet at Cronstadt and Portsmouth has weakened Germany's powers of ill.
A STEAMER ASHORE. Thursday Island, September 11. The British India Company's steamer Virawa is ashore at Dun gale Rock, ami it is not likely she can be lloated oft without immense difficulty.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8670, 12 September 1891, Page 5
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