BRITISH AND FOREIGN

West Coast Times, Issue 10473, 18 January 1897, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

London, Jan 15.

A despatch from the Niger Coast Protectorate states .that Boisragen and Locke and twenty-five native carriers have returned, having escaped the massacre of Philips' eapSaffion; They were wounded, and Mnde&tl in "the bush %r six &§& before 6eing ! sav%i3; In Ay couVse «& a $3ech %to Duke of Devorislnre stated that intend to constitute local bodies for the control of etaifto'n wsn" % central council.

TM MaSM &ou& ¥&!* Mo* now amounts to sixty thousand pounds, of wmch india subscribed ten thousand pounds.

Edmund Bynre, tDtfflg§rWfiV& member for Walthat&sto^, succeeds Ohitty as one of the judges of the Chancery division.

A force of 500 trdops With Mtefimpift Wid artillery will be despatched in February to occupy Benin, on tSe west coast of Africa and open up 'the interior, of the country. Captains Boisragon and Locke who arrived at the Brass river will be consulted as to the resources of Benin, it D. Moor, the consul, is confidenta week's operations will destroy the fpWe'r of the [king.

Professor Silvanus Thompson, an eminent electrician, has expressed an opinion that by the adoption of -new ift&tiods&ft possible io despatch tteVetity tyoids 'a minute over thVsingle PW&VcSble at a 'small extra cost. ,

A. F. Wigram, 'm'efntfer for 'ttie&imford divis^ W %&<k, firfWsU Wg% his seat m the "Commons.

Obiftiary— Sir Travera £wisVQ.C. The ceremony of confirming Dr dell dreighion as Bishop of fconctoniiras doiiductedyesterday in the Chttrc'h'oFSt Mary's Le Bow, Cheapside. During the proceedings a scene was created By a layman rising from among ! t¥e audience and protesting against the confirmation on the ground Dr Creigntbn was a rituaiis't. Calcutta, Jan 15.

A meeting of Europeans and leading natives carried a resolution approving of the Government scheme of relief in the famine suffering districts. Lord Elgin, the Said the occasion W& 'w#hout parallel, ana'tfp^eafe -fe^p '$$& being despatched m all 'a&ecfcwns. \ national aid sckeme was essential.

Reports frbm Bombay sTioV thes&gue Continues to rage with* great viruTeniifr, and the popillation is half Sdple^fl Dy flight. Commerce is paralysed, and the Moslem cemeteries are over-crowded.

Constantinople, Jan 15. Marshal Fouad Pasha, a prominent -officer in the Turkish army, has declined the 'offer of the position of Commander of Bagdad, in Asiatic Turkey. The London Times co-respondent feaysthit the offer waVan 'a'&e'mptd'h the •paift'tff •fiJtltan to exile the Pasha, and Njrin^N^ the effect of infiaming'^e dlw^]jies;sj{ Turkey.

Madkjd, Jan Ifl.

Government haVeadttfftbd'ft'sdii^Sie'cjf reform in Cuba which is intended to pave the'way for autonomy without surrendering Spanish imperial power in the island. Ne-^t Yob*, &m t Q. The New York newspapers report the Otfban insurgents refused to recognise {He scKeWoia^o^m^tpYdpoSea'b^ BJSih

Capetown, Jan 16.

The patrol despatched to pmtfsh the Matabelefor rdcotit murders'jof ©luridly natives at Fort Charter in ¥fche 'Salisbury th'strict {#tacked ! and defeated &c Mfc killing thirty two.

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M. Meline, Premier, 'proposes to intro'ducfea bill into the Chamber Of Deputi*, dealing with the marking of imported frozen m'Wt.

St PfiTEßSßufca, Sin 15. In the chess match at Moscow 'between Lasker and Steinetz, the latter was defeated.

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