CABLEGRAMS
BRITISH' AND FOREIGN.
. Prsss Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. THE QUEEN AND THE DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY. ' London, February IG. The Q.aoen has published a letter thanking her snbjects generally for the expressions of sympatby at Prices Henry of Battenberg's death. She speaks of him as a dearly-lovad and helpful son. The spectacle of hor daughter Princess Beatrices blighted happiness is hard to bear. BOJLGABIAN AFFAIRS. Italy and Austria support Prince Ferdinand's claim for recognition by the Sultan. ACQUITTED. Madams Bissau has been acquitted on the charge of stealing bond» from her husband to the value of L 35,000. co » sois. Consols are quoted at 108|. PERSONAL. Lieut. Ernest B«son has been appointed commander o£ H.M.S. Royalist.
MR GLADSTONE INTERVIEWED. Mr Gladstone told a representative of the Paris paper Figaro that he personally desired closer relations with France, but he was unable to express an opinion as to the foreign policy of Great Britain. NBW STEAMERS. Messrs Hnddart, Parker, and Co. have ordered a new steamer. She is to be built at Sunderiand and completed by August. The New Zaaland Shipping Company's new steamer Mataura has been successfully launched. SHIPPING. The Waikato is loading for Auckland and Wellington, and is advertised to sail on the 25th March. TQRPEDO DESTROYERS. Pour torpedo destroyers have been ordered to Malta. THB WHEAT MARKET. Wheat 13 6d cheaper. A DIVISION DESTROYED. Cohstaktinoplk, Februarylß. The incapacity of Edhem Pasha, the commander of the Turkish troops, enabled ambushes of the Druses to destroy a division of the army, and nearly created a mutiny among the men. BJdhem has since been deprived of his command. EXPELLING MISSIONARIES. Capetown, February 18. The Portuguese have expelled Swiss missionaries from Delagoa. EAST AFRICAN AFFAIRS. Zakzlbae, February 16. The rabels have burned Melinda, in British East Africa. POLITICAL TRIALS. Pabib, February 16. Trials arising out of the Lebaudy scandals will begin on March 2.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 10598, 19 February 1896, Page 2
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