HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.
THE WAR IN CUBA. A special to the New York Herald from Havana, under date September 17th, says: —Tho Cuban army is not counting upon any action the United States Government may take towards ending the war. The rebels are prepared to fight it out ou_ their own account. In Pinar del Rio the insurgents have a fighting force of three thousand men, who are well armed, but in a bad way for clothing and supplies. During the last week the Cubans have attacked and captured the town of Candelaria, on the Western railroad. In Havana province there are at least 5000 men Castillo. They are now well supplied with winter clothing and prepared for an aggressive campaign. General Gomez is in this province, and has captured the town of Plaoetas. East Jucar-Moron, the trocha country, is practically at the mercy of the rebels. THE YUKON GOLDFIELDS.
At the' Canadian Trades and Labour Congress on September 17th the following resolution was passed :—“ Resolved that tho gold recently discovered in tho Yukon region is the property of the people of Canada and should be worked by the Government for the people, and not be left open to the world for all-ebmers to be enriched by the exploration of our national resources j aud that a copy of this resolution be sent to the Ministers of the Interior, Finance and Trade and Commerce, and the Premier.” ANARCHISTS IN BRUSSELS. • •
Subsequent to the expulsion from the city on September 16th of Louise Michel, the notorious French anarchist, and two companions, Charlotte Fauville aud Bronson Loux, the police arrested 15 persons suspected of being anarchists. The police also dispersed several bauds who were parading the streets shouting and cheering for anarchy. FIVE BURGLARS LYNCHED.
Five men were lynched on the night of the 14th September at Ogood. Ind. They were caught at burglary and strung up by a crowd of angry citizens. The many burglaries which have occurred in the neighbourhood have stirred the people to frenzy, and they determined to make an example and carried their plans out with despatch. THE IRISH FAMINE. The Daily Nation, after getting a letter from every pastor of a parish in rural Iceland, says :—“ Since Black ’27 Irish labour never faced a winter more full of privations.” The harvest" was as bad as it can be in the west of Ireland, and it is pretty sure that tbere will not only be a food but a fuel famine. Not only are the potatoes rotting in the ground, with the grain crops beaten down by fain and not worth reaping, but the turf cut will not dry. BRITISH TROOPS ORDERED TO INDIA. The fact that no less than 10 batteries of horse and field artillery have been ordered to embark for India during the months of September aud October is much commented upon in military circles, says a London despatch of September 18th in the Victoria (8.C.) Colonist . Under, ordinary circumstances, the four batteries now in India would have been relieved this month. . But they have been ordered to remain, and therefore there will shortly be on the frontier fourteen batteries of artillery, a full complement fof an army corps. As the British force now assembled on the frontier is of ample strength to wipe out all visible resistance, the only conclusion that can be reached in regard to these despatches of reinforcements of artillery is that the authorities are possessed of information of a serious character.
The intimation conveyed by the, war, ofiioe on Monday last to the London commercial agent of the Ameer of Afghanistan, that no war material or machinery for the manufacture thereof will be allowed to cross the frontier during the present crisis, indicates that the British Government has by no means entire confidence in the Ameer’s fidelity, and it is hinted that the Government has learned that, while professing friendliness to Great Britain, the Ameer has been in secret preparing for war. Well-informed circles are also discussing the story of secret correspondence between Russia and Afghanistan,-which is said to have fallen into the hands of Britith officials; and it is further intimated that a widespread plot, embracing the Beluchis and others, has been discovered. . ARREST OF FITZSIMMONS, THE PUGILIST! . Robert Fitzsimmons, pugilist, [has been arrested in New York on a warrant secured by Howard J. Patterson. Patterson had been acting as coachman for the pugilist, but Fitzsimmons discharged the coachman, and a quarrel following, Patterson now claims that Fitzsimmons assaulted him, Patterson has also sued the pugilist for S2OOO damages. «
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 3262, 20 October 1897, Page 3
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