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BT XLBOCBIO TKLKOSAFn — COPTBIOHT. PEACE BETWEEN FRANCE AND MADAGASCAR. MR. FOEBTKR OPPOSES HOME RULE. [BBUTEB'B TBLEOBiMS.] (Rocoivod December 24, 2 p.m.) Pabis, 23rd Docomber. It is announced that France haa concluded peoco with Madagascar, the terms including the institution of a French Protectorate over the island, with absolute control on the part of France over tho relations of the Malagasy nation with foreign powers. It is also stipulated that tho Hovas shall pay a war indomnity amounting to 10,000,000 francs. Co»BTANTnfOPtB, 23rd December. Mukhtar Pasha, tho recently-appointed joint Anglo - Turkish Commissioner to Egypt, has left for Alexandria. Londox, 23rd December. The Right Hon. W. E. Forster has written a letter to tho papers in which ho speaks in terms of condemnation of tho proposal to grant Homo Rulo to Ireland. The appointment of Mr. Douglas as High Commissioner of Now Guinea is only an interim one, and tho permanent selection is still to be made. (Received December 24, 3.15 p.m.) Melbotjenb, This Day. Tho difficulty between the shipowners and the wharf labourers still remains unsottlcd. There is, however, a possibility that the entire question may bo postponed /or a month, but failing that, tho masters will obtain mon from the other colonies without delay.
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Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 152, 24 December 1885, Page 3
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206SECOND EDITION. Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 152, 24 December 1885, Page 3
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