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CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Mr H. F. P ease, M.P. for Cleveland (England), is dead. Lord Elgin reports that partial rains are improving the Indian crops, and that prices are falling. Two hundred and seventy thousand are employed on relief w'orks.

The National Agricultural Association at Birmingham passed a resolution in favor of a zollveieiu of Great Britain and the colonies. Twelve thousand Greek reserves are mobilising. It is believed that this step is taken owing to the menacing situation in the Balkans.

Reports have been received in Sydney from the Sacred Heart Mission in New Britain that smallpox is ravaging the group, and has swept away vast numbers of Natives. Cannibalism is also rampant in some of the northern portions. In one village over fifty Natives were killed and eaten. The Boers in Northern Natal and the adjacent Orange Free State districts are arming and laagering. They profess to be afraid of a Native rising. The Young Turkish movement is extending despite the constant arrests of members of the party, who are punished by torture and exile.

The proposed national Christmas testimonial to Mr Bayard, American Minister to Great Britain, has been abandoned at that gentleman’s request. Inconsequence of the allegat ious against him in connection with the newspaper prosecutions, Herr Tansch, chief of the German police, has been suspended. The amount advanced by the Caisse do la Dette towards the cost of the Dongola expedition has been refunded. The Khedive lias expressed a lively sense of gratitude for British aid in regaining the lost province.

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Evening Star, Issue 10182, 8 December 1896, Page 2

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CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS. Evening Star, Issue 10182, 8 December 1896, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS. Evening Star, Issue 10182, 8 December 1896, Page 2

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