HOME AND FOREIGN CABLE NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 6505, 14 March 1896, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN CABLE NEWS.

(By EtscTKic Telegraph—Coptrioht.) (PER rrvTTED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received March 14, at 10/30 a.m. B ' oel Lisbon, March 12. \ soldier who was suffering under an e( j grievance blew up the magazine at t nda~a Portuguese settlement on the western coast of Africa. Twenty persons or p kOled or wounded. were K Paris, March 12. Destructive floods are reported in France, Switzerland, and Germany. Twenty Powers have promised to hibit at the Paris International Exhi Vr'nn The French Government is giving j?'gramme or 1886, the chief feature f which was a large increase in the numL r of fast cruisers. _ The Budget Committee strongly con- , . social and economic dangers of Z proposed Income tax. the P Caiko, March 12. fne Ecrypti' -111 troops will shortly adj to D'tngola, for the purpose of V& rei; ;ic2 raids, and also in the hope of attention. Two bodies of i, of which is under Osman Si are menacing Kassala. SS*I March 14, at ! 1.15 a.m. Loxdox. March 13. 3Jr Beeves has begun his duty as AgentGeneral. \ small band of Radicals and Irishmen Extracted the army estimates ail night " n d the closure had to be frequently applied. Mr Chamberlain made a spirited defence of the Ashantee expedition. The Irish wrangled over the navy estimates until sin the morning. The Lord Mayor declined to open a fund for wounded Italians. Cakacxa.s, March 10. Mark Twain is ill at Jeypore. St. Peter-sbckg, March 13. The Moscow gazette tay.s that Russia will not consent "to King Menelek being crQshed ' Rome, March 13. It is reported that the Kaiser, Emperor of Austria, and King of Italy will meet at Geuca.