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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2136, 29 December 1880, Page 1

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CABLE_NEWS. ENGLISH & EOKEIGrN. [bettter's telegrams.] CONSTANTINOPLE, December 28. A New Conference. It has transpired that the Porte intends to make a proposal to the Powers that another Conference should be held to settle the Turko -Greek frontier question instead of the proposed arbitration for the same purpose. LONDON, December 27. Obituary. John Joseph Mechi, ex-alderman for London, aged 78, is dead. Deceased was best known as the inventor of the razor strop bearing his name. December 28. The Disaster to the 94th Regiment The latest reports to hand from the Cape go to prove that the disaster to the 94th regiment in the Transvaal has been greatly overstated. The casualties were only thirty, the remainder being disarmed and afterwards released. Mr Parnell. Mr. Parnell has been elected chairman of the Home Rulers in Ireland. The Turko-Greek Frontier. Farther diplomatic communications have been received, wherein it is stated that Greece insists upon the adoption of the frontier line as laid down at Berlin. BERNE, December 27. Suicide in High Places* The President of the Swiss Confederation, who had but quite recently been elected to the position, committed suicide to-day in the street in this city.