DISTURBANCE IN CENTRAL AFRICA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2008, 18 August 1892, Page 34

DISTURBANCE IN CENTRAL AFRICA.

(Feb Fbess Association.)

Teheran, August 14. Three thousand deaths from cholera are reported at Sabriz. The town is deserted.

Brussels, August 12. Information has been received hero that great disturbances have taken place in Central Africa. Tho Belgian stations wero destroyed and the agents killed on tho Upper Congo and in Katanga.

London, August 12. Letters from Captain Lugard report that he has consented to allow the Roman Catholics to occupy the district of Budga, while in Uganda proper all religions are to be free.

August 13. News is to hand from West Africa that tho natives aro greatly disturbed at the numerous expeditions in their country. Ifc is feared that 20 agents of the Katanga expedition have been killed, and the steamer Baernet captured by natives. The tribes on the western bank of the Congo are in revolt, and three agents have been killed at Nyangwe. Tho stations in Upper Lomani havo been destroyed, aud it is feared that the Arabs in the neighbourhood of Stanley Falls have turned hostile. Soldiers have been despatched up the Aruwimi river.

Paris, August 12,

News is to hand that there is a general revolt in the Upper Congo. The chief Rumatiza is at the head of the disturbance, which extends from Lake Tanganyika to Lake Victoria Nyanza and Upper Lomani. The stations of the Anti-slavery Society and Trading Company have been destroyed, and Jacques and Joubert's expedition to Lake Tanganyika have been driven back. It is believed that Hodister, director of the Katanga expedition, has been either killed or captured.

The parcel post between New Zealand and Queensland came into force on Tuesday.

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