LONDON.
March 25. By a severe earthquake m Northern Persia great damage was caused. Nearly 1,000 persons perished. The French Government has been recommended to appoint three committees for the Sydney Exhibition, tp control the representation of .agriculture, manufactures, and science, resj. ectively. In the Lords to-day the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, replying to a question, said that if the Treaty of Berlin was not fulfilled/ the Sultan thought the British fleet ;in the Sea of Marmora should be sent to the Black Sea to secure compliance with the conditions, and that he Cthe Sultan) should be authorised to ask assistance 'from his allies. The Secretary of State added that he did not anticipate such a contingency alluded to by the Sultan would arise. '•• : '••• • The Government have accepted a tender jfrom the Eastern Telegraph Company, for the construction of cables to Aden, Zanzibar, Mozambique, Delagoa, and Natal. •- Sir John Coode's scheme for the improvement of the Yarraand construction of a dock, involves a , cost of over a million. The Duke of Cambridge denies that Lord Chelmsford has complained against Sir Bartle Frere m connection with the Zulu disaster.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 661, 27 March 1879, Page 2
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