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BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT. (BBOTKB’S (Received January 17,1.10 p.m.) THE'SYDNEY ELECTIONS. Sydney, January 17. The Committee of Elections and Qualifications has declated that the seats in the Legislative Assembly of the . lion. G. H. Reid (Minister of PublicVlnstruction), and Mr E. B. Sutter (ex-Ministor), are vacant by reason of an informality in regard to the proclamation of their election. The committee has'- still under on sideration the question of the validity of the election of the Hon H. B. Cohen' (Minister of Justice.) Melbourne, January 17. Arrived, last evening—Manapouri, from the Bluff.,

Mr Ford has been appointed the third member of the Railway Board. 1 (Received January 17,10 p.m.) ~. GENERAL.
London, January 17. In its issue this morning the Daily News, in referring' to" the proposed Victorian four million loan, doubts whether it will be successfully floated. - ■

An outbreak of fire has occurred at No. 67, Cornhill, on the premises oc cupied by Messrs Silver, and is now (6 ».m.) increasing rapidly. The -Union Bank of Australia has declared a dividend for the past half year aL the, rate of .18 per cent, per annum, and carries forward £55,000 to the reserve. The Homeward mails via. Brindisi, dated Melbourne, December 5, were delivered yesterday. ; THE SOUDAN REBELLION, i ‘ B ‘ Cairo, January 16. ;

The Minister for War has aban doned the journey which ho proposed to make to Khartoum, in order to supervise the evacuation of the town by the Egyptian'garrison. The state ment made yesterday that a celonel of the Egyptian army was about to raise a corps of Albanians for’ service in Egypt is not correct, . MONETARY and BBEADSTUFFS. London, January 16.
