LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Kumara Times, Issue 2589, 22 December 1884, Page 2

LATEST BRITISH AND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ♦- . ARRIVAL OF HOMEWARD MAILS. FIRE AT BROOKLYN CATHOLIC ORPHANAGE. TWENTY-ONE CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH. NINETY OTHERS STILL MISSING. GERMAN AND RUSSIAN CLAIMS ON EGYPTIAN CAISSE. ADJOURNMENT OF CONGO INTER. NATIONAL CONFERENCE. (Received December 22, 0.35 a.m.) London:, December 20. The cargo of frozen mutton ex steamship Doric is landed in good condition. The Homeward San Francisco mails, from Auckland, Nov. 11, were delivered yesterday. New York, December 20. A disastrous fire occurred laat night at the Catholic Orphanage, Brooklyn. The bodies of twenty-one children, who were burned, have been recovered, but ninety others are still missing. Berlin, December 20. The reply to the claims made by the German and Russian Governments to be represented on the Egyptian Caisse de la Dette Publique, have been received. The Egyptian Government states in effect that it is willing to recognise the claims, provided all the signatory Powers in whose favour the law of liquidation was passed shall agree to sanction the necessary modification in the constitution of the Caisse. The reply has caused considerable displeasure to the German and Russian Governments, and also at the Austrian Court. The International Conference on the the Congo question has adjourned its sittings until after Christmas. * _ [special to press association.] London, December 15. The Hon. John Douglas, C.M.G., exPremier of Queensland, and Mr Simon Fraser, of Victoria, are passengers to to Australia by the s.s. Rome. The parleying which has been proceeding for some time between the Earl of Granville and the Marquis Tseng, Chinese Ambassador, in connection with the Franco-Chinese question, has been suspended. December 17. The Board of Directors of the Consolidated Telephone Company have been authorised to sue Sir Julius Vogel in consequence of the recent report of the Investigation Committee. It is rumored that France intends deporting recidivistes to the Island of Madagascar instead of New Caledonia. The German Reichstag have refused to vote salaries for additional Consuls j at Apia and other of the Pacific Islands. It is rumored that an international control will be established over Egypt. New Zealand is to receive all the direct mail service .postages, with the exception of the postage on British inland letters. ' I It is expected that Lord Granville will protest against the agreement of America to construct the Nicaraguan Caual, as being opposed to the terms of the treaty of 1850, whereby England and America agreed to establish a joint protectorate over any canal or railway across the Isibmus. Remedy for Hard Times. Stop spending so much on fine clothes, rich food and style. Buy good food, cheaper and better clothing, and stop the habit of using expensive or quack doctors, or humbug medicine that does you only harm, but put your trust in the greatest of all simple, pure remedies, Hop Bitters, that cure always at a trifling cost, and you will see better times and good health. Read Despairing Bankers.—The number of suicides among the brightest and most capable of business men, bankers and and others, will be reduced to a minimum as soon as the specific virtues of Hop Bitters are known. As all men who work with their brains and neglect to take the needed exercise, the food taken does not nourish ; and dangerous .Ability, physical and mortal, ensue. Read