THE EX-KHEDIVESETTLEMENT OF HIS CLAIMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 239, 28 January 1888, Page 1

THE EX-KHEDIVE-SETTLEMENT OF HIS CLAIMS.

Constantinople, January 24. Ismail Pasha, ex-Khedive of Egypt, has formally abandoned his claims against the British and Egyptian Q<h. vernments in respect to property, of which he alleged he was deprived at the time of his abduction. He has also renounced the allowances made to him by the Turkish Government, and he accepted a palace equivalent to .amillion and a-quarter and one hundred thousand pounds in cash.

Chicago, January 24. Intelligence has been received her& of a daring bank robbery in Indiana. Four masked men stuck up a bankmurdoring the cashier,- who resisted them. After securing the plunder, they bolted, but were pursued by an armed force, and two of their number were shot dead, the others being captured.

London, January 25. Barnum, the well-known American showman, is endeavouring to charter the Great Eastern in order to convey his i vast menagerie, which has been reconstructed since the late fire in which helost some of his finest animals, on an exhibition tour round the world.

London, January 24. The Right Honourable Mr Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in speaking at Hastings, stated that. Governraent did not intend to tax corn. He denied that there was any discord in the Cabinet, and believed there never w«r a more united Ministry. The assertion that Lord Hartington had sought to modify the local government measure wa& a pure iaventiou. -