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Colonist, Volume XXIV, Issue 7110, 7 September 1891, Page 4

meet tlbe Czar at Copenhagen. PARIS. ■;■•■ • • . . . . September 4. ' The Frenoh Republic whioh was deolared on ilia Borrendei of Sedan, attains it majority to-day. It i« reported th?,V the Banqae de Paris offers to raise the Russian loan of twelve million sterling at 4 per cent. ZANZIBAR, September 4. Wissunan, with 500 German troops and a thousand native porters, is about to leave Saoani for Lake Victoria Nyanza. He takes with him, in pott*b!e sections, a email ■teamer to navigate t qq lake. ST. PETERSBURG, September 4. Some Russian peasants at Maiakoff refußed to permit the .dastruotion of some diseased cattle. A riot followed and some Ccssacks fired on the peasants killing seventeen and wounding many others. MADRID, September 4. By a railway collision in this city seven were killed and twenty injured. CONSTANTINOPLE, September 4. The Sultan has dismissed six other Ministers besides the Vizier Djevd Pasha. The Governor of Crete has been appointed Vizier, and Kiza Pasha Minister of War. It is explained on behalf of the Porte that the opening of the Dardanelles does not apply to the regu'ar Russian fleet and involves no infraction of international treaties. BUCHAREST, September 4. The Queen of Roumania has been persuaded to part with Miss Varesco, who, it is understood, will enter a convent. MELBOURNE, . September 5. Influenza is prevalent. Lord and Lady Hopetown, the Premier, and the Chief Secretary are all prostrated with it. The action McCormiok v. Cuthbert, a claim for £5000 damages for libeJ was begun end has been adjourned. The plaintiff is a magistrate and the defendant was formerly Minis er of Just joe. The libel is alleged to have been contained in official letters whioh were taken to infer that MoCormick had improperly and corruptly adjourned certain obsbb. The defenoe applied for a nonsuit on iho ground that a Minister in writing on matters of State is absolutely privileged. SIDNEY, September 4. In response to a query from the New Zealand Rifle Association the Sydney Association has decided that mafefces at two, $ree, four, fiva, and six hundred and a thousand yards shall be open to New Zealand team, and a speoial matoh will probably be arranged as well.