MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS

Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 157, 24 November 1896, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS CABLEGRAMS

[PBESS ASSOCIATION.") (Received November 24, 11 a.m.) London, 23rd November. Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for j the Colonies, intends to appoint a Commission to enquire into the critical position of the West Indian sugar trade, and devise a remedy for its depressed condition. The patent rights of Bovrii extract of meat, which were lately bought by one of the Dunlop tyre millionaires for two millons sterling, are being floated into a company with a capital of two and a half millions, the j vthple of which is to be issued to the public. ' Messrs. George Webster & Co., Australian merchants, of Cannon-street, have failed, their liabilities amounting to £150,000. Beblin, 23rd November. The press of this city insist* that the German Government should not allow the proposed. British expedition to proceed up the Niger River, as it would prejudice national interests. Capetown, 23rd November. Pre?ident Kruger las expressed regret at Dr. Jameson's illness. Mr. Cecil Rhodes has subscribed £5000 towards the erection of a memorial to the victims of the Matabele rebellion. Rome, 23rd November. It is understood that if the Italian wlony Erythrea, on the shores of the Red Sea, is evacuated, the towns of Mareowah and Kassala will be given up again to the Egyptian Government.