... Persia was more ap- parent than real, and that we had an enormous ad- vantage in the fact that the Persian people and the Persian Government infinitely preferred England to Russia. At the same time, he advised that care should be taken to make it clear to Persia ...

... magnitude as give Her Majesty’s Government special interest in these waters. Mr. DRA6E asked whether the loan which the Persian Government had h«*n negotiating with the Imperial Bank of Persia—the only British institution in Persia—on the security of the ...

... intervened to forbid the Persian Government from concluding a loan which had virtually bee.n arranged with a group of British hanks. It ia probable that in the absence of energetic support from this country the Persian Government will try to compromise ...

... British steamer Baluchistan, by Her Majesty ship Lapwing, in the Persian Gulf. The seizure was made at instance of the Persian Government, and the only suggested why British war-vessel interfered in t.'if matter was because the arms were not only intended ...

... rearrangement of the debt which did not confer the whole advantage the debtor. are informed that financial delegates of the Persian Government are endeavouring to raise loan in I ...

... autumn ia over there will massacre of Christians on the llakiari border. The remonstrances addressed by the Porte to the Persian Government the subject of the disturbances are not likely to have much effect, for if there one trait of the Persian character ...

... and completely sacked and destroyed two Armenian villages. Two hundred Christian* and Mohammedan* were massacred. The Persian Government is sending more troops. The district of Salmas fertile plain »he Persian side of the frontier, to the north-west Lake ...

... The carrier has then to stat off and report to the nearest forwarding agent, who writes to hTeshed, and eventually the Persian Government issue orders to the delinquent to release the goods, and they arrive here after many months' delay. Thus our trade routes ...

... troops have, moreover, been. despatnhed to the scene of the disorders, and further fightingz is ex.peted. Hitherto, the Persian Government has always been sympathetically disposed towards the 4rnaenians. Constantinople, Thursday-CReuter).-Intelligenee hae ...

... s and the Persian Government officials, claiming certain- of the Armenian inhabitants, whom he mentioned by name, and endeavonred to carry off by force. Such acts have been of frequent occurrence, and on eacE occasion the Persian Government has ade repre ...

... The sais, equipment, and all the Toronto Yacht Fleet stores in the building were cousumed, nothing being saved. The Persian Government has granted a concession, to run for seventy-five years, for the construction of a earriage r^oad between Kavin and ...

... ment. The engineers would also draw up estimates for the extension of tha above railway in different directions. The 'Persian Government proposes to cover thia eapense by maeans of a special em. VALUE OF PROPERTY AT 'PONTEFRACT.- Last night, Messrs. Bentley ...