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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 32, 6 August 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

• THE ARM EN TAN REFORMS. MR CHAMBERLAIN IN DISFAVOR AT THE CAPE. (Per Press Association.) London, August 4. The Constantinople correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette states that it is currently reported that the Khedive has presented the Sultan witii half a million sterling in order to enlist the sympathy of Turkey in the Egyptian question. It is reported that Mr Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, is pressing for the appointment of a committee to consider the construction of the Pacific cable. The Porte consents to apply reforms to Armenia largely based on the scheme put forward by the Powers, and will appoint a Christian in cash province to assist the Governors, and will allow Christians a fair share of official appointments. The Kurds will be given grants of land in order to stop their migrations, and thus do away with the excuse for ravages. The Sultan's reply to the demands of the Powers proposes that Christian assessors shall assist in the appointment of sub-governors, the mayors, gendarmerie and police to be equally composed of Moslems and Christians, in accordance with the jjopulation, and tbe improvement of prisons. Sir P. Currie bas demanded the immediate release of the Armenian political prisoners. The Powers will appoint a Commissioner, Barou Cullay, the Austrian diplomat, being suggested for the post. Mr Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the colonies, in an address to a meeting in Birmingham, said the Conservative and Unionist alliance was formed at a time of national danger, and that the recent political crisis had cemented it. Through a decade, by mutual sacrifice and common action, it had resisted its foes, and the third election had confirmed it in a way unequalled in the history of coalitions. Capetown, August 2. In the Cape Assembly, indignation is expressed by a section of members at the conditions imposed by Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, on the transference of Bechuanaland to the control of the Cape. They urge that these will interfere with the freedom of the colony, and challenge the Secretary of State to attempt to force similar terms on Australia. Paris, August 5. Don!, an Anarchist, was the miner who had been dismissed. Sofia, August 5. M. Matakeiff is still alive.