CHILIAN AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9193, 22 September 1891, Page 2

CHILIAN AFFAIRS.

BALMACEDA CAUGHT AT , SANTIAGO. HE SHOOTS HIMSELF. MANIFESTO LEFT BY HIM. ' | PER PREBB ASSOCIATION. | London, September 21. — Intelligence has been received here that General Balraaceda, distrusting the Junta's promise of a fair trial, shot himself at the Argentine Republic Legation in Santiago, where he has been hiding since his overthrow, and that the troops are protecting his body. The news of the ox- President's death was received at .Valparaiso with great enthusiasm, „ and was celebrated by illuminations. Balmaceda is reported to have left a document in which he declares that his generals were ( false, and that he was surrounded by tVaitors He asßerts that he aimed at Chile's welfare, and denies the charges of cruelty except in certain caßeß which rendered it necessary. Balmaceda says that Mr Egan, the United States Minister, often urged him to compromise with the insurgents. He adds that after his downfall he intended to escape in the cruiser Almirante Condell, j but, finding she had sailed for San Antonia, he returned to Santiago on September 2nd. ! The document states that Dr. Uriburn, j the Argentine Republic Minister, and other devoted adherents alone were aware of his being concealed until Friday last, when be was discovered by the Junta. Balmaceda was shot through the temple on Saturday morning. The Junta sent a Commission to view the body. . The excitement in Santiago is said to be indescribable, and a large frenzied crowd demanded the body. In a letter to Dr. Uriburn, Balmaceda stated that suicide was the only escape from persecution. ' ■ i The news has not yet been confirmed by the Legations.

The Band will give a sacred concert in the Recreation Ground on Sunday afternoon next, provided the permission of the Recreation "Board is obtained. Those in want of furniture should bear in mind the sale of Mr Mofflin's stock by Mr Newton King to-morrow, when a large and useful assortment of goods will be submitted to the hammer. The quality of Mr Mofflin's manufacture is so favourably known that further comment is needless, and as the goods must be cleared prior to alterations, this should be a good opportunity of securing bargains. The Parliamentary correspondent of the Poverty Bay Jlemld thus refers to tlie member for New Plymouth :: — '* Mr E. M. Smith made an able appeal for his motion to intercept supply, that a Royal Commission be appointed to investigate tho practicability of developing the ironsand and ores of the colony. He had spent the best years of his life in endeavoring to successfully treat ironsand, and had now succeeded in a .process whereby from one ton he could get 12cwt "of that beautiful' metal." It was. a motter of national importance. The Hon. Mr Seddvn informed Mr Smith that Government could not accept the motion, for the reason that they wanted to get into mppl.y at once. The aan^s of time wore against Mr Smith. After 25 yea 1 sh ard labor Mr Smith was likely to roach Chicago. Government had decided that the colony should be repre sented at Chicago, and would send some of his ironsand, and that would bring capital to develop the industry .—Mr Smith : Will you send me there ? (Laughter.) — Mr Seddon promised to keep that stoadily in' viow. — The motion was lost on the voices." Tne Resident Magistrate at Wellington heard tho evidence on Friday in a curious case which will shortly cngago tho attention of the Mastortou (Jourt. The plaintiff, J. J. Smith, of tho Wavarapa Star, sues T. C. Williams for the purpose of recoverin i a sum of £9 9•, the price of inserting as an advertisement, a letter published by the defendant as an advertisement in the Neiv Zea and Times. Plaintiff had insorted the letter in the Stur on the stiengtli of a footnote which read " Wairarapa Stur and others please copy." Defendant to day tendered the evidence of ChurlcK Stubbs, accountant, and Thomas Morrison, journalist, f• r the purpose of showing the custom in regard io such matters, lioih witnesses were of opinion that it was not customary to charge for copying a lettei under such circiunatances. Mr Morrison interpreted the footnote to moan ''copy i. you please," aa applied to tho case m ol, nptices of births, deaths, and marriages, and he thought the plaintiff should not have taken the footnote as aa instruction.