PARIS.
September 19. M. Roustan, tbe French Resident at Tunis, is now in this city conferring with tbe Cabinet in regard to tbe course to be pursued in view of the present position of affairs in Tunis. Negotiations on the subject of the Anglo-French commercial treaties were commenced here to-day. M. Firard, the French Minister of Commerce, expressed himself in cordial terms towards England, and as hopeful that a satisfactory understanding would be arrived at. Sir Charles Dilke, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in reply, fully endorsed the expression of M. Firard. WASHINGTON. September 19, evening. President Garfield died to-day at Long Branch. September 20. Accounts to hand this morning from Long Branch state that the President died calmly at 10 30 last night. At 10.15 he was sleeping quietly, when he awoke with a pain in his heart, and in fifteen minutes he breathed his last. Mrs Garfield was present at the death bed. In consequence of President Garfield'a decease the Cabinet has summoned General Chester Arthur, the Vice-President, to fill the Presidency for the unexpired term, nearly three years and six months.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3192, 21 September 1881, Page 3
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