HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.
* FIGHTING IN INDIA. AN EPIDEMIC OF TYPHOID FEVER. NEW INDIAN COTTON DUTIES. (FKB PBESS ASSOCIATION! Rome, December 27. Obituary — Francis ex King of Naples. A serious outbreak of typhoid is re ported from Syracuse, in Sicily. Up to the present two hundred cases have been recorded, and upwards of one hundred persons have succumbed to the disease in a few days. Calcutta, December 27 Colonel Mercer with 600 men and a number of guns destroyed the defence of the Waziris at Guaralkon, and by explosions levelled the towers and walls at Karam. Only a few on the side of the British were wounded. The Indian Legislative Council has adopted the import and excise cotton duties. St. John's, December 28. Cook, the manager, and four directors of the Commercial Bank of Newfoundland have been arrested on a charge of submitting a false balance-sheet by including among the assets securities mortgaged to the London and Westminster Bank to meet advances. Cairo, December 28. News has been received tbat the Dervishes are approaching Kassala.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 155, 29 December 1894, Page 2
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