GABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 78, 11 December 1884, Page 2

GABLE NEWS.

♦ " Special to Star."

[RENTER'S TELEGRAMS. I London, December 9. The investigation Committee of the Consolidated Telephone Company reaffirm that Sir Julius Yogel. one of the directors, enriched himself by means of the company, and endorse the advice of counsel, that a lawsuit should be instituted to recover the enormous pro. fits made by him. [In reference to the above, the Wellington Times of Decem* ber 9 says : — Sir Julius Yogel requests us to state that he cannot believe that the Investigation Committee of the Telephone Company have made the statement attributed to them by the Press association's special London correspondent, and that he declares such statement to be utterly false and libellous.] Bombay, Dec. 9 Earl Dufforin. who succeeds the Marquis of Ripon as Viceroy of India, arrived here yesterday and received a cordial welcome. Berlin, December 9. The International Conference have agreed to freedom of navigation on the Congo and Niger rivers. International control, however, will be confined to the Congo, while England will control the Lower and France the Upper Niger. Cairo, December 9. Judgment has been given against the Egyptian Government in the action brought by the French, Austrian and Italian members of the Caisse of Public Debt, to prevent the suspension of the Sinking Fund. Received December 11, 1.5 a.m. Caibo, December 9. The head quarters of the British expedition for Khartoum will advance on Satuiday next from Dongola to Ambukol. The Egyptian Government have appealed against the verdict obtained by the French, Italian, and Austrian members of Caisse public dette in the action brought by them ou account of the suspension of the Caisse in September. Paris, December 9. 1 Instructions have been sent to Admiral Courbett and General de Lisle to pursue a course of inaction and refrain from engaging the enemy.