"The Right Hon, @ N. Curzon, speaking at Glasgow, said that the Nile task would be incomplete until the Exyptian flag was hoisted again at Khartoum, Referring to Armenia he said that he deprecated agitation as long as Great Britain did not intend to go to war on behalf of Armenia, Paris, 20th September.
It has been decided to replace Mr. Laroche, Resident-General in, Madagaseat, by Colonel Gallieni in April next.
21st September.
A decree has been passed establishing a permanent commercial commission charged to examine matters affecting the expansion of French Colonial Commerce, and to report upon all questions of trade between France and her colonies.
London, 22nd September.
Baron Banify, President of the Hungarian Council, speaking in the Hungarian Diet, said that Austria and Russia had agreed upon a pacific policy to maintain the status qo in the East, The Times states that the Russian fleet at Sebastopol is on a war-footing. Three battalions of infantry have been embarked, and the fleet will proceed to the Bosphorus Should a telegram from the Russian Ambassador so order.—From Bangkok Papers.
Tae Director of Sicawei Observatory reports, Friday, 9th October, 10 a.m.—State of the atmosphere on the 8th.—High pressures over Mongolia. The typhoon of the 7th inst, lies to the N.E, of Tongking
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