GENERAL.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1404, 26 January 1899, Page 31

GENERAL.

Ma' ila, January 18. Tho citizens of Manila aro now returning to the city. The American ofl'cors and individual insurgents at Iloilo aro fraternising. A memorandum received from the cable station at Wakapuaka last evening states that a censorship is exercised over all telegrams from or to Manila which contain political news. Capetown, January 18. A quieter feeling prevails in Johannes- \ burg. No serious injury was done during tho disturbances caused by the

breaking-up of the recent Outlanders’ meeting by a band of Boers. . The British residents accuse the police of tho Transvaal and tho Government officials of partianship with the rioters. Cairo, January 18. Ahmed Fedil, the Khalifa’s cousin, who was recently defeated on the Blue Nile, but escaped capture, lias suffered another severe reverse. After the battle the gunboat Metemmeh captured 2000 of his followers, but Fedil himself again escaped. Cairo, January 19. Ras Mangascia, tho hereditary chief of Tigre, the northern part of Abyssinia, who was lately in virtual insurrection against King Menelik, but asked Italy to intercede on his behalf, has now become reconciled to his sovereign, and has cemented the settlement with a definite treaty of peace. Ottawa, January 18. Six members of the Legislature of British Columbia have resigned in consequence of disclosures recently made in which they were accused of having supplied goods to the Government. Ottawa, January 19. The Government of British Columbia has issued a regulation prohibiting aliens from carrying on placer (i.e., alluvial) mining within the colony’s territory. This announcement lias caused intense dismay amongst the American miners, of whom there are great numbers in the Yukon goldfields. Cabul, January 20. The Russian Government is establishing Cossack colonies in the vicinity of Kusluk, near the borders of Afghanistan. Capetown, January 21. Dr Carl Peters, the well-known African explorer, has started for the Zambesi on behalf of an Anglo-German company. He goes with the intention of exploring certain country situaled near Sofala, in Portuguese East Africa, which has been declared to be the territory known in Biblical history as the Land of Ophir, from which the ships of Solomon, fitted out in the harbour of Edom, returned, after voyages of three years’ duration, with gold, precious stones, sandalwood, &o. Capetown, January 20. The prosecution of tho chairman and secretary of the Outlanders’ League, who were arrested a few days ago on charges preferred by the Transvaal Government,, is now proceeding at Johannesburg. The prosecution subpoenaed the British Vice-Consul as a witness, but the latter, failed to appear. The Transvaal Executive is now considering the matter. Manila, January 21, News has been received that a detach-' mont of American forces was landed At Guinmaro, a small island between the islands of Panay and Negros, close to the town of Iloilo, which is now held by the insurgents. No opposition to landing was encountered. Washington, January 22. The Senate has decided to ask President McKinley for copies of the correspondence which passed with the socalled Philippine Republic formed by Aguinaldo and his associates some months ago; also particulars of the territories in the Philippines controlled by the respective forces, and what islands in the Group Spain could in any event deliver over to the United States. Pekin, January 20. The Chinese Government is sending a commercial commission to Europe and America with a view of establishing commercial agencies.