ELECTIONS TO HOUSE OF COMMONS.
FRANCE CLAIMS WAR INDEMNITY
FROM CHINA
LONDON WOOL MARKET QUIET
(Received March 22, 2.20 p.m.)
LONDON.
March 21
A vacancy having occiirred in tho representation of Cambridgeshire in the House oi Commons, owiny to the resignation of the senior Liberal member, Sir Henry Brand Ex-Speaker, who has been elevated to the peerage, an election took place yesterday, and resulted in the return of tho Conservative candidate (Mr Thornhill) by a large majority over his Liberal opponent. An election also tqok place yesterday for the representation of Huntingdonshire, when Sir Robert Peel was returned in the Liberal interest.
It has transpired that France has claimed an idemnity from China for the expenses of tho Tqnquin campagn, the amount being fixed at a minimum of £6,000,000 sterling.
The wool market is quiet. The arrivals to date for the next'auctions amount to 120,000 bales.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3955, 24 March 1884, Page 3
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