CABLE NEWS.
(KLF.OTRIC TKLEGKAPH. — COPYRIGHT. ) (SPECIAE TO UNITuO PIIKSM ASSStioiATiON. London, Jan. 7. Tenders for the mail service have beei suspended until Qneunsl.mil, Tusmanis. and Western An.-rtralia have decide whetlier all postages from those colonitwill be sent by the federal service nnles specially addressed. Jan. 8. T!ie exports tor the year show a tiecrease of £20,000,000, as compared with j the returns last year. In the irnI ports there is also a falling off of £16,000,000. The French Ministry formed by M. Freycinet ia considered a weak one.
(JREUTER's TELEGRAMS.) Paris, Jan. 8. Advices are to hand from Arinam announcing a furtlier massacre of Christians by the rebels. A mission station was attacked by the natives, who killed the Catholic missionary m charge of the station, tos-ether with above five hundred converts. General De Courcy, on hearing of the disaster, promptly sent a body of French troops and ihHicted a severe punishment on the murderers. Cairo, Jan. 8. Mukhtar : Pasha, Turkish . Commissioner to Egypt, advocates raising the strength of the -.Egyptian.. army to .16,000 men, m order to enable the Khedive to hold the frontier against the Soudanese Arabs. , , .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1605, 11 January 1886, Page 2
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189CABLE NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1605, 11 January 1886, Page 2
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