Cable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 91, 21 January 1893, Page 2

Cable Brevities

It is believed in German official circles that the Egyptian epteodo will draw England closer to tho Triple Alliance. France and Russia are blamed for instigating the Khedive. The Chairman of the New Zealand and Kiver Plate Company said the assets wero equal to four times the amount of debentures issued, but it was important to pay up calls and minimise liability. The influx of population was enhancing the value of property, and mortgagors wore demanding proportionately larger advances. A cashier of the Bank of Naples has been arrested charged with embezzling £100,000 of the funds of that institution. In tho case against the Panama Canal directors, the Public Prosecutor made some severe strictures on the conduct of M. Eiffel, and demanded that all the defendants should be imprisoned without the option of a fine, contending that the infliction of a fine would not be sufficient punishment for such wholesale swindling as had been perpetrated by the accused. In tho French Chamber of Deputies M. Develle, replying to a question by M. DeLouche, said the Government *c* cognised the seriousness of England's iuterference with the independence of the Khedivo, and had instructed M. Weddington, French Ambassador in London, tointerview Lord Roseber-y. Foreign Secretary, on the subject. The French press, are extremely irritated, and allege that England's aotion practically amounts to. annexation. On the other hand the Austrian, Italian, and German press, warmly approve of the stand taken hy England, and condemn the childish lolly of The Khedive. There are 41 cases of cholera in Halle, in Prussian Saxony, and nine deaths are* reported. The block in the traffic caused by the heavy snowfall lhi«atens New York with a coal f n mine.

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