FRENCH WAR CREDIT FOR TONQUIN EXPEDITION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3708, 4 June 1883, Page 3

FRENCH WAR CREDIT FOR TONQUIN EXPEDITION.

i THE KHEDIVE AND MINISTRY OF EGYPT THREATENED WITH DEATH.

NARROW ESCAPE OF EX-EMPRESS EUGENIE FROM SERIOUS ACCIDENT. COMMODORE RIVIERE CAPTURED AND IMPALED BY ANNAMESE. THE TORY PARTY AND THE GOVERNMENT. PRICE REALISED FOR FROZEN MEAT BY BRITISH KING. NEW SOUTH WALES LOAN TO BE INSCRIBED. LONDON. May 27. The French Chambers have passed a war credit for tlio ToiMjuiii expedition by a unanimous vote. May 28. The Khedive and his Ministers have been threatened with death unless the British immediately retire from Egypt. The ex-Empress Eugenic has had a narrow escape from a serious carriage accident, tlio horses taking frigH and running away with her. It is now reported that Commodore Riviere was not killed, as stated, in the French attack on Hanoi, but was captured by the Armamcse .and impaled. May 29. A meeting of the Tory parly, held at the Carlton Club, resolved to resist the Government's attempts to rush bills through Parliament. The frozen meat by thy Erir'H Iving,

from Lyttclton, has realised over 7d per pound. 1 May 30. The New South Wales loan will bo issued in inscribed stock through the Bank of England. By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. [Rkuter's Telegrams.]