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New Zealand Mail, Issue 907, 19 July 1889, Page 25

CONTINENTAL.

(PER PRESS ASSOOiJ TION , , , Bucharest, oJ'y ii *. , By a railway collision near the v*’ 1 ? | 15 persons were killed and many injured. Constantinople, July 12. The Turkish official who was sent to report On the state of affairs in the Island of Crete declined to accede to the demands of the malcontents, and ( the latter consequently refused to pay < their rente* Troops were despatched j to enfdfcee obedience, but owing to the menacing attitude of the inhabitants, were withdrawn in order to avoid a conflict. - i Belgrade, July 14. ( The Regents have armed 30,000 ot the Servian reserves nominally for the r purpose of suppressing brigandage. The action has, however, created an impression in official circles in Vienna that a Servian attack on Bulgaria is J meditated. Parts, July 14. t The decree of indictment preferred by the Government against General t Boulanger charges him with a feloni- j ous attempt against the safety of the State, also of conspiracy and of embezzling the sum of 252,000 francs. Count Dillon and M. Rochefort are charged with being accomplices. The Chamber of Deputies has passed a Bill providing for limiting the nutn- < her of candidates for any one com f stitueney. ] Paris, July 16. The Senate has closed its session after passing a Bill limiting the num- ; ber of candidates at elections, but j without voting the fifty-eight million < Irancs for the navy which the Lower j Chamber sanctioned, because the latter closed its session without intimating its intention to the Senate. ] Burrin', July 16. Emperor William, who is now ou a trip to Norway, had a narrow escape of being killed by falling ice while visiting the Buarbare Glacier. SPECIAL. (per press assocition.) Paris, July 11. A scene occurred in the Chamber of Deputies, and M. Laguerre, Boulangist, was expelled. The Government has decided to prosecute General Boulanger, Count Dillon,i and Rochefort for treason. ; The Belgian Government has agreed to subsidise a line of steamers to Austral i a. | I Paris, July 17. M. j Deroulede was arrested while haranguing a meeting of Boulangists, but tlie crowd rescued him from the hands of the police. M. Waddington asserts that Boulanger is not working for the good of the Republic, but merely agitating with a view to claim the Dictatorship of Prance.