VON CAPRIVI HARASSED BY BISMARCK.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11610, 12 August 1892, Page 2

VON CAPRIVI HARASSED BY BISMARCK.

FPer Press Association.] ' London, August 10. Queensland is hesitating. whether to place on the market .£300,000 worth of Treasury bills, the balance of last issue. Sir Julius Vogol declares t'uafc English investors are gratified at the wise policy adopted by New Zealand, and. states that the credit of the colony is excellent. ' The annual mooting of the JBritisli Association for thn Advancement of Science, which began at Edinburgh on August 3rd, has been most successful. Professor John Scott Burdori Sanderson presided over the meeting." It" was decided to meet next year in Nottingham. A Blue Book has beea ' issued containing ■ despatches bearing on the Morocco m : B3ion. To a large extent it confirms the accounts already published of the dramatic incidents attendant on Sir C. Euan Smith's jourhey to Fez St. Petersburg, August 10. Russian troops have compelled the Chinese to withdraw from the- Pamir Plateau. Military material is being forwarded from Odessa to the Pamh-3. A ploasuro steamer was run-down at Helingsfors and 45 persons drownad. Cholera is causing a panic in the city. Trade is at a standstill, and wealthy people are leaving the city. Later. . • The number of deaths recorded so far from cholera is 25,000. • . • ' ' Roue, August 10. ■ By an accidental explosion of dynamite during a festival at Alfonsine, near ■Ravenna, 11 persons were killed and 32 injured. : •• Beelin, August 10. It is rumoured that Count Von Capri vi, German Cl aieellor, intends' to resign owing to fcho continued attacks made on him by Prince Bismarck, and that Count Hatzfeldtwill probably succeed him. • _ Constantinople, August 10. Russian, agents are asserted to be dog--1 ging the step 3of M. Dimtroff, the • Bul- ' ganan Agent in this city, and It is feared that he will be murdered.