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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 6, Issue 47, 14 June 1895, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

ALARM IN JEDDAH. Cairo, June ir. In Jeddah a Bedouin revolt is expected, as the religious festival has roused the fanatics. The European residents are appealing to the Great Powers to intervene immediately. AUSTRALIAN CATTLE. London, June ix. The Port Victoria from Sydney lost seventeen cattle, including five which were specially dieted. The remainder arrived in good condition, but they will all have to be filled at Deptford, owing to the steamer calling at Malta. THE ARMENIAN QUESTION. Constantinople, June 11, The European delegates on the Armenian enquiry refuse to act in conjunction with the Turkish representatives. This extreme step is taken in consequence of the allegation that Turkish delegates are openly bribing and intimidating witnesses.

London, June 11. Great Britain has appointed a special Consul in Bitlis, which is situated near the scene of the recent atrocities in Armenia.

GERMANY OBJECTING.

Berlin, June 11. There is considerable irritation in Germany and Russia at the fact that a Chinese loan has been placed on the Paris money market, and the Chinese authorities are considered to have acted disloyally towards Germany.

OSCAR WILDE

London, June 11. The Governor of the gaol in which Oscar Wilde is confined denies that Wilde is insane. At first the convict was kept at the treadmill for six hours a day, but, as his health is not good, he is at present engaged in the lighter occupation of picking oakum.

ASYLUM TORTURES. Berlin, June 11. Horrible revelations have come to light as to the tortures inflicted in a Catholic asylum at Aix la Chapelle. Patients were bound hand and foot and then submerged, head downwards, in icy water until they werepartially drowned, and, after being released and revived, were again subjected to the same inhuman treatment. MASSING OF TROOPS. London, June n. Russia is massing troops on the Turkish frontier. SPAIN AND CUBA. Madrid, June it. The Minister of War declares that he is ready to despatch ten additional battalions to Cuba, as the Government are determined to secure the complete overthrow of the rebels. PANIC IN A THEATRE. London, June 12. During a performance of " Faust ’’ at Convent Garden the scenery caught fire, and a rush immediately took place for the doors. The majority of the audience, however, had the sense to remain in their seats. The opera was temporarily stopped, and Madame Melba appeared in front of the curtain in her Marguerite costume, and secured the attention of the spectators in order to prevent the panic spreading. Her coolness was loudly applauded. KILLED BY A SOCIALIST. Rome, June 11. Signor Porrhre, formerly Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs, who was wounded by a Socialist, has succumbed. COLLIERY ON FIRE. Berlin, June it. A colliery near Breslau is on fire. Four hundred miners were entombed, and of this number only forty have been rescued up to the present. June 12. All the colliers were saved except fifteen, whom the rescue party found to be hemmed in by a wall of fire, and reluctantly had to abandon them to their fate. STEAMER SEIZED. Ottawa, June 11. A Canadian patrol has seized the American steamer Ruelle, and arrested the crew, for damping Detroit refuse at the mouth on the Canadian side. VALUABLE PRESENTATION. London, June 11, Mr Petherick, the well-known publisher, has offered his library, containing six thousand rare colonial books, to the Federal Council of Australasia, as the nucleus of a Federal Library. The donor desires to sec the books placed temporarily in the Imperial Institute. FRANCO-RUSSIAN TREATY. Paris, June 12. The Parisian press declare that the terms of the Franco-Russian treaty will be published after the fetes at the opening of the Kiel Canal. It is reported to embody a military convention.