BRTISH & FOREIGN

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 168, 4 September 1886, Page 4

BRTISH & FOREIGN-

Athens, August 29.—An earthquake, Causing great destruction of property and loss of life, ocourred at Philiatras, a town On the south-west coast of Grace, in the province of Morea. Fully three hundred persons are known to have perished. 30.—The latest accounts !

Athens, August regarding the earthquake at Philiatra put the loss of life at less than originally stated. 116 bodies have been recovered, and many persons have been rescued from the ruins of the town who have sustained serious in-

juries. Alexandria, . August 28th. — Several severe shocks of earthquake have been in various parts of Egypt.

experienced Rome, August 28.—Keports to hand from several towns of Italy state that heavy earthquake shocks were felt during yester-

day. Rangoon, August 25. Intelligence is to hand from Mandalay that one thousand persons have Deen drowned there through the bursting of a dam. London, August 27.—1n the House of Commons to-day, the debate on the Addrees-in-Reply was resumed, when Mr Farnell's amendment, requiring suspension of evictions in Ireland during the winter months, was rejected by a majority of 123. Mr Gladstoae has issued a pamphlet dealIng with the Irish question. Id whicb he abandons the land-purchase scheme, and he expects that the sense of nationality of Scotland and Wales has bestirred Ireland, and that the latter country only needs to persevere to obtain their demands. Mr Gladstone left London this evening for the continent, en route to Bavaria. London, August 26. — Thirty Scotch Liberals are agitating for Herne Rule for Scotland. It ia stated that Mr Stanhope, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has arranged to confer with Lord lddesleigh, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with reg\rd to the French occupation of the Jiew Hebrides, and to arrange a course of action to be taken in dealing with the subject. Sir Graham Berry proposes to forward a further despatch to Mr E. Stanhope on the New Hebrides question, in which he will urge that France might be inclined to keep the islands, arguing, in defence of such a step, acquiescence unless the evacuation is at once pressed by England. Baron Norton, in a successful speech, de clared that colonists were as badly off as Europeans, almost every inch of their coil being in the possession of a few hundred capitalists. He also said that the farming community in the colonies scarcely gained an existence, whilst in New South Wales there were thousands of the artisan class unemployed. Victoria he considered the most thriving of the colonies. The working class opposed the deportation of recidivistes, but did not care whether the French annexed the New Hebrides or not. The opposition that was raised against that Power doing so was simply on the part of capitalists. London, August 30.—The Britieh and Bussian Commission for the delimitation of the Afghan frontier have conceded Russia 9,000 square miles and the Ameer 2,000 square miles of territory. Dr. Lister, editor of the "Lancet," is dead.