ENGLISH & FOREIGN.
[SPECIAL TO THE “ TIMARU HERALD.”
LONDON, May 21.
Five thousand additional troops are to be at once sent to the Cape. Volunteers are freely offering for service, and it is probable a number of them will be enrolled.
Tho French semi-official organs attribute the Egyptian difficulty to England’s jealousy of French influence. Tho “ Daily Telegraph ” replies that the British Government’s only desire is to arrange all Eastern affairs as speedily as possible* and adds that the tone of tho French Press is not calculated to further that end.
The Under-Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs is still in Paris.
[SPECIAL TO “ GLOBE.”] LONDON, May 21.
At the wool sales 9235 bales were sold to-day. Prices continue firm. Greasy and combing are advancing.
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Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1641, 24 May 1879, Page 2
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