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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 138, 7 December 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

_, I THE RUSSIAN FORCES IN THE i CAUCASUS. GERMAN INTERESTS IN SAMOA. THE ARMENIAN ATROCITIES. HORRIBLE CONDITION OF THE NEW YORK POOR. THE NEW VALENTINE COMPANY. THE ARDLAMONT CASE. (Per Press Association.) Washington, December 5. President Cleveland's message further recommends that the national banks should issue untaxed circulating notes not to exceed 75 per cent, of their actual capital, and deposit a guarantee equal to 30 per cent, of the amount of the issue. It is proposed to establish a safety fund for immediate redemption of the circulating notes of failed banks by imposing an annual tax of 1^ per cent, on each bank on its average note circulation St. Petersburg, December 6Owing to the unsettled state of Turkish Armenia, the Russian Government have decided to immediately reinforce troops in the Caucasus by 20,000 men. Cairo. Dec. 6. The Egyptian Government has voted £60,000 for the construction of the new lighthouses in the Red Sea New York, December 5. Mr John Burns, M.P , delivering an address to a mass meeting of workmen, said that Whitechapel was clean, wholesome, and even luxurious compared to the horrible tenements he saw in New York the effect of the Tamaiany regime. London, December 5. It is proposed that Nelson Bros, shall receive £30,000 from Mr Valentine for the goodwill of their business. It is understood they are willing to transfer tbe business to Mr Valentine. In the event of Russia occupying Port Larazeff, on the eastern coast of Corea, Great Britain will occupy Chusan on the Chinese coast. France claims a right to Formosa. Tbe Courts have upheld tho Insurance Compauy in its refusal to pay to tbe father of Lieutenant Hamborough (alleged to have been murdered at Ardlamont) the sum of £"25,000 on the latter's life, on the ground that a false statement was mado at the time he insured. At the request of the Sultau, England has couseuted to bo represented on the Turkish Commission of Enquiry into the Armenian outrages, The Westminster Gazette suggests that Gernianj* should cede to England territory iv the banks of Lakes Nyassa and Tanganyika, as well as a strip of 25 miles between Tanganyika and Albert Edward Nyassa, iv exchaugo for Samoa.