POSTAL CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9089, 22 May 1891, Page 2

POSTAL CONFERENCE.

London, May 21. Sir Charles Tupper will represent Canada at the Postal Conference at Vienna, and England will be represented by Sir Erancis Blackwood and Mr H. B. Forman. SERIOUS ACCIDENT. During an excursion of school children I at Chesterfield a platform collapsed. Two of the children were killed, while 30 were seriously injured. DEATH OF A CHIEF JUSTICE. \ Obituary : Sir Patrick M. Colquhoun, j who was Chief Justice of the lonian i Islands until the cession of the Island to ! Greece in 1864. •He was 76 years of age. FROSTS IN EUROPE. Pabis, May 21. The severe frosts which have been experienced throughout France '• and Switzerland lately are causing great havoc among the vines. RAILWAY IN SPAIN,. Madbid, May 21. Senor Conovas del Castillo, the Premier, in the course of an address to Congress, stated that the Government would require 24 million sterling in order to construct new lines of railways, make additions to the fleet, and supply other requiretoents. POLITICAL CRISIS IN -PORTUGAL, Lisbon, May 20. Count San Jamariohas failed in his attempt to form a Cabinet. LATE OUTBREAK IN MANIPUR. Calcutta, May 20. Colonel Maxwell has effected the arrest of Senapati, the Manipur Com-mander-in-Chief. In the despatches, Lieutenant Grant has been recommended for the Victoria Cross in recognition of his bravery while he was besieged at Thonal during the earlier part of the revolt. Senapati and the Manipuris captured with hitn. will be put upon their trial on Saturday.' ; " ¥ CHILIAN REBELLION. Valparaiso, May 21. President Balmaceda officially explains that the negotiations which were being conducted with the view of bringing about peace between the belligerents have been closed. He says it was his desire to see an end put to the revolution, but nothing could be done in that direction, as the insurgents refused to formulate their proposals for a declaration of peace. British gunboats are patrolling the Chilian coast, and are protecting the interests of the German as well as the British residents. LATE CHINESE RIOTS. Pbkin, May 20. Affairs at Wu-hu, the scene of the recent Chinese riots, are very much quieter. INFLUENZA AT &GYPT. Cairo, May 20. Influenza is very prevalent in this city. REBELLION AT HAYTf. ■ Washington, Maiy 20. Consequent upon the deposition of General Hippolyte from the Presidency, martial law has been proclaimed in Hayti. . . ' CHILIAN WAR STEAMER, i New Yoke, May 21. ' The authorities at Acapulco refused .to supply, the Chilian rebel gunboat Esme'ralda. with coal. It is stated that the Itata managed to transfer her cargo of arras and ammunition to , the Esmeralda before they parted company. j