BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5499, 26 February 1896, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[BY ELECTBIC TELKQEAPU—COPYKIQUT.I [Special to Press Association.] OBITUARY. LONDON, Feb. 25. Mr John Peasy, formerly member for West Mayo, is dead. A EESPOETBD _*T_OT. NEW YORK, Feb. 25. It is reported that a plot has been discovered, to dynamite the subTreasury in New York, and in the confusion carry of£ seventy -three million dollars deposited there. Thirty persons are paid to be implicated, - FILIBUSTERS ARRESTED. The American police arreßted sixty Cuban filibusters on board a British vessel at Bermuda. The vessel was seized, and the arms and ammunition and several bags of gold which were found on board were removed. VENEZUELA. Sir P. Pollock has completed the statement of the British case in the Venezuela boundary dispute. ITALY AND ABYSSINIA., . _ •'*• ROME, Feb.' 25. Greneral Pelloux replaces General Baratieriat «the head of the Italian army in Abyssinia. - FRENCH FOREIGN POLICY.' ' PAEIS, Feb. 25. M. Berthelot, replying to M. Delopcle, said the .reqession .of the Mongsih and Up per -Mekong was a moral concession in order to render possible an approach to other questions in a' spirit of concord and sympathy. He. did not allude to the Egyptian question. DEATHS FROM YELLOW FEVER, RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 25. ' Fifty of the crew of (the Italian cruiser Lombardia, which is lying in the harbour, have died from yellow fever. ' , THE CHITRAL EXPEDITION. . CALCUTTA, Feb.. 251 The Indian G-oyorjimeuTb has voted a gratuity of alac b£ rupees 'to he? distributed among the members of the military fdrce takiug part in the Chritral expedition.