TELEGRAPHIC.

Timaru Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 6059, 19 September 1894, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

BRITISH AND _?OKBIGN.

(Pier Eikotrio Telegraph— Copyright,) (Pbb Prims Association.) Beoeived 11.15 a.m., September 18th.

THE SLAVE DEALERS.

Cairo, September 17. The Italian Government disavow the allegation of Aii Cherif Pasha that he ib an Italian subject, and he will now be tried by separate court-martial on a charge of being concerned m the purchase of Soudanese slave girls. General Kitchener advises that the court-martial should consist of an in* creased number of British officials. It is considered unlikely that Waoyt Pasha and Shwarbi Pasha, who were acquitted, will be again placed on trial.

PERSONAL.

Calcutta, September 17. It is stated that the Ameer cf Afghanistan will visit England m March.

MADAGASCAR.

Roans, September 17. / Official newspapers advise England and Italy to combine m defending their interests m Madagascar.

■Received 1.30 p.m., September 18th. THE NATIONAL BANK.

London, September 17. Many city men consider it desirable that the National Bank of New Zealand should also amalgamate with the Bank of New Zealand. CHANGED HIS POLITICS. Lord Hothfield, a Liberal leader m Weat-aoreland, has seceded from his party aud announced that m future he will be a bitter opponent. He explains that the change is due to the Budget proposals introduced by Sir W. Harcourt.

TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.

St. Petersburg, September 17. By the collapse of a naptha warehouse m Minsk, twenty persons were killed.

THE DEFENCES OF TOULON.

Paris, September 17. M. Lookroy, president of the subcommittee to report on the French defences, m his report on those of Toulon, states that there are only five out of fifty torpedo boats ready for sea.