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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1247, 23 January 1896, Page 20

LATEST CABLES.

London, January 19. The Clyde strikers have accepted an immediate increase of Is per week, but the Belfast men have rejected a similar offer from the employers. The settlement of the Mekong difficulty guarantees Siam the control of the Valley of the Menam. The rest of the territory under consideration is divided between France and Great Britain. England’s chief benefit is the right to extend her territory in the Malay Peninsula. Baldwin, a Radical election agent at Chesterton, has been sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment for offering the opponents of his candidate fictitious pairs. A Chinese loan of twenty million pounds will be placed in England and Germany. - Paris, January 17. At the request of France, the Italian Government prevented a steamer carrying 50,000 rifles for the Abyssinians from landing them in the Red Sea. The French Minister to the Vatican has been recalled owing to his complacent reception of the Pope’s protest to the Premier’s Bill respecting religious societies. Madrid, January 19. Marshal Campos admits the non-success of his campaign in Cuba. General VVeyler succeeds him in the command. Berlin, January 17. The State Monopoly of Imported Cereals Bill, introduced by Count Kanitz, has been rejected by a majority of 122. New York, January 20. At a dinner of commercial gentlemen in the city, the toast of President Cleveland’s health was drunk in silence.