People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

▲ peerage has be**-, conferred upon Sir Hercules Robinson, governor ot Cape Colony. Emperor William is preparing to hunt for whales. When he reaches the waters of Norway it is his Intention to kill several of them. He will approach the monsters in a torpedo boat and hurl what is known as explosive harpoons at them. Sir Charles' Tupper handed in his resignation, along with that of his colleagues, to Lord Aberdeen Tuesday, Wilfred Laurier, who is in Montreal, was sent for immediately. Cholera is still raging in Fayoum province and elsewhere in Egypt. There have been twepty-seven cases of the disease, with nine deaths from it, among the Egyptian troops at Wady Haifa. The London Daily News has a dispatch from Cairo which says that two British soldiers have died of cholera at Wady Haifa. In honor of the American warships lying here on the Fourth of July all of the vessels in the basin of St. Mark were ordered to hoist their gala flage on that occasion. The Italian dispatch vessel Galileo also fired a salute of twenty-one guns. A brother of Dr. Jamieson, Dr. "Jim” of the Transvaal raid, has been murdered by the Mashonas. Emile Arton, implicated with Dr. Herz and the late Baron von Reinach in the frauds on the Panama canal company, has been sentenced to six yeans at hard labor.