People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Egyptian debt commission paid the first Installment from the reserve fund, amounting to £200,000 ($1,000,000), Thursday of the money required for the expenses of the British-Egyptian expedition up the Nile. Berlin’s boerse committee has granted the special quotation of certificates of 6 per cent first Northern Pacific bonds. By an explosion of Are damp in a mine at Brunnerton, New Zealand, five persons were killed outright and sixty more entombed with no hope of being rescued. A semi-official note bas been issued stating that France will refuse to sanction the use of the Egyptian reserve fund for the purpose of the BritishEgyptian expedition up the Nile to Dongola unless she receives precise pledges concerning the British evacuation of Egypt.