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Southland Times, Issue 3315, 4 February 1879, Page 3

Minister^ of the^ey '-.of- Tuttisriaving been apppinted Grand Vizier in place of Saf vet - Pasha. -The new Vizier ;bdng:van> : eQergetic, capable .man, imbued with European culture aM ideas of 'progress, gi'eat holies are entertained that, the long-piomiKed reforms, in Bufopean Turkey will at length be thoroughly carried out. . . / V >■■ ■'^Many : rum6rß^have' beeri- ; nn6(it- as : to the relations which secret agreements or conventions knay or may not have established between England and Russia, and England and ■--' the Porte.' ;> ' r : :^!'.;<;:. ..-;■■ ;■■■;;■ .■• . The Chancellor of the Exchequer has, it ps true,* denied in the House of Commons'ti report that England had entered into an agree-, menttb' assume^ th^ protectorate of Coristantinbpl^^but he wa^ -ipt equally explicit in his •qtialified cbntrarliction of the statement that ;it'was proposed tb^issue a new Turkish^ loan ■'■'■•' 11 English^iarantfe^.-'; - ! :-' f './ . ' r / A report is crirreiit -that: 'the^English Government, having applied tpßussia to know i^'wtieiher, in the event •of^the'Ariicer -flying to Herat, it would ctinsfe'n£ to- an English occuk ' patibn of that tpw^ivtheßussianGo'vernineDt has significantly 5 answered that as Herat is. the point at which -Russian interest would '■'■'■ begin to : be ; it ■'-■would" in that case ••'"' necessitate S Russian occupation of Merv. Obituary of the.?mOnth.^-Major ■ Whyte" ; Melville, the celebrajJed sporting author, killed 1 -instaritanepusly in the hunting field ; Mr A. : Wigan^ the actor^ Mr G; Hi. Lewis; Mrs Tait,. - ' -the wife of- the Archbishop of Canterbury ; S^^r Gy^prop'iietPr and- manager of Convent • :