YESTERDAY’S CARLE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 8660, 24 October 1896, Page 1

YESTERDAY’S CARLE.

BRITISH AND_ PORBIfiN. Pee Electric Telegraph—Copyright, Feb Press Association. SIR GEORGE BOWEN. London, October 22. Sir George Bowen has been married to the widow of the Rev. Henry White. CHINA AND JAPAN. The Daily Neivs asserts that a result of the interview between Lord Salisbury and the Czar at Balmoral is that Great Britain, Russia and France have agreed on a policy with respect to China and Japan, and are arranging matters on the Mediterranean questions. . FRANCE AND RUSSIA, It is reported that France has recently invoked the help of Russia to resist the expected British annexation of Morocco 1 CAPTURE OF A CHINESE DOCTOR. October 23. It 4s reported that the Chinese Legagation kidnapped in the streets of London Sunyetsun, a Chinese doctor and leader of a conspiracy in Canton to depose the Manchu Dynasty. Sir H. Macartney, secretary of the Legation, denies that the doctor was inveigled or enticed into the chamber, but was simply detained when he voluntarily visited the Legation. Sunyetsun’s friends, however, insist that he was seized and carried inside. Another account is that two Chinese after a conversation were persuaded to visit lodgings which the Embassy has secured, also that an application was made to a Judge fn Chambers who declared that he was unable to interfere. Detectives are said to he on the watch day and night to prevent those detained being smuggled on board a vessel. The press generally refer in indignant terms to the matter, and call upon the Marquis of Salisbury to insist on liberation,] g

WAR TAXATION. Constantinople, October 22. The Turkish Government are levying war taxation.

SEIZURE OF A FILIBUSTER. New York, October 22. A United States vessel has seized the Dauntless, a Cuban filibuster.

PRINCESS HELENE. Rome, October 22. Princess Helene received a great ovation on her arrival in the city to-day.