ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2276, 19 July 1881, Page 3

ENGLISH & FOREIGN.

CABIiE NEWS.

[seutee's telegrams.] LONDON, July 16. Well Deserved. The National Bank of New Zealand has declared a dividend of 4 per cent, for the past half year. £IOOO (sic) has been carried to the reserve fund. Shipping l . Arrived—Barque Minnie Allen, from Port Chalmers. PARIS, July 16. Well Deserved. Don Carlos, the well-known claimant of the throne of Spain, who has been residing in France since the termination of the Spanish Civil War, has been accused by the French Government of intriguing with the Legitimist party. He was arrested to-day, and conducted to the frontier, and forbidden to re-enter the country. PARIS, July 17. The Tunisian Difficulty. Later intelligence regarding the battle preceding the capture of Sfax by the French, states that the Arabs offered a most stubborn resistance to the storming party, and inflicted upon it a loss of eighty killed and forty wounded. The engagement lasted some time, and the insurgents did not give way until they had suffered heavily. The French troops in occupation of Sfax have now been largely reinforced from the squadron and have taken up strong positions in and around the city in preparation for attacks by the Arabs. CALCUTTA, July 18. News from the East. Ayoub Khan has left his camp at Ferrah, and has crossed the frontier into Indian territory. He is now at Hydrabad, in the province of Scinde. His motive for acting thus has not yet transpired.