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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1267, 11 June 1896, Page 36

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Constantinople, Juno 2. Tho I’orto has ordered tho despatch of 35 battalions for service in Crete. B ini LIN, Juno 4. Speaking in tho Reichstag, M. Bronsart declared that tho peace of Europe was assured for a long time. Parts, Juno 4. By an explosion in tho Itochebelle colliery, South of Franco, 25 minors were killed. Paris, June 4. News has been received that a force of fifteen hundred insurgents and bandits burnt the town of A ntrira.be, in Madagascar, and besieged a mission station. Tho militia repulsed the robols, who lost two hundred men. Paris, June 7. M. Ilanotaux declares that tho annexation of Madagascar is necessary, otherwise Great Britain and tho United States will insist on tho terms of the treaties being maintained. News has been received that a French Niger expedition operating in tho Benin country has been defeated in an encounter with the natives, and that many were killed, seveinl deaths resulting from the wounds caused by poisoned arrows. St. Pktursuuimj, Juno 7. It has been ascertained that at the peasants’ fete, held in honour of the coronation of the Czar, and which ended so tragically, 3873 persons were killed and 4000 injured. Madrid, June 8. A bomb was thrown at a procession while it was entering a church in Barcelona. Six persons were killed, and no less than fifty injured. Two abandoned bombs have been found in Barcelona. It is believed that it was intended to throw them into the Cathedral.