GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5202, 9 December 1895, Page 2

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

Paris, December 8. M. Avon's revelations have caused a sensation in Paris.

M. Recurd speaking in the Chamber denied their truth. He admitted that he gave tho informes, who offered to disclose certain papers, a lotter to his agent in London, requesting him to negotiate for them. It was impossible, lie neglecting any chance of arriving at a unanimous vote of confidence.

Tho Committee presided over by M. Belletan reports that the cost of the French Navy last year was two millions sterling morethan the navies of the eastern alliance. Reference is nmde to the administrative abuses which cover a hundred and fifty pages of the report. London', Decembor 8.

A Tribunal of Bomahas has made enquiries into JlajorLothaire'saction and lie will afterwards be tried by the Superior Council of the Congo Free State at Brussels. Tho Congo Stato lias paid an indemnity of ono hundred thousand francs to tho natives of tho Stokes' caravan. MrT, Chamberlayne, the Conservative momber for Southampton, has beeu unseated because his itgout paid a votor a florin for a railway faro. Shanghai, December 8. The Emperor of China Lasordorod the construction of a double line of railway from Pekin to Tientsin at a cost of tlireo million taels. mt