BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
London, July 21. 3 v Li Hung Chang statos that China will j balance equally tho French and British , commercial rights in the south-west prol vinces of China. i There was good competition at the wool i sales, but prices were unchanged. | Dr Jameson and his five associates are [ being tried before Lord Chief Justice ; Russell, Baron Pollock, and Sir Henry , Hawkins. Sir E. Clarke moved to quash the indictment on the ground that it was | vitiated by the absence of the proclama- , tion required under the Foreign Enlistment Act. The Attorney- general in reply contended that the act warranted a general indictment. The decision of the court was reseifejh _ The Queen wiU arbitrate in tho frontier dispute between Chili and the Argentine. The cholera in Egypt is spreading to the expedition between Assouan and Kasseh, and 165 have died from the plague. The first Chamber of tho Transvaal Volksraad has passed a measure prohibiting the sale of alcoholic liquor to tho natives.
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Mataura Ensign, Issue 166, 23 July 1896, Page 3
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