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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 67, 13 November 1888, Page 3

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(pee united press association.)

Auckland, November 11

" The Yfioman of the Gunrds is the title of Gilbert and Sullivan's uew opera, produced tor the first time in London on the 3rd October. It was v populur buccess. The work is quite unlike its predecessors from the sumo source, being serio-comic. The house was a tremendous one, and the ap plause was enthusiastic. Jesse Bond and \V. Grossnn'th were in the caste. Sir Charles Dilke, replying to the address of a deputation asking him to stand for membership on a new County Board, declared that his frietids were preparing .«uch a review of the evidence iv the Crawford case as will prove his innocence, and enable him to return to public life. Tom King, ex-champion of the English prize ring, died in London on the sth of October, The cyclone which recently prevailed in Cuba will decrease the sugar crop 10 per cent. There have been violent storms in the North Sea, and oeveral fishing smacks arrived at English ports report the loss of some of their crews by being washed overboard. A statue of Shakespeare was unveiled at Paris in October. Kitty Fox Jackson (one of the " Fox sisters"), who originated the "Rochester knockings," arrived at San Francisco on October 9th, for the purpose of co-operating with her sister (Marguerita Fox Kane, relicit of Dr Kane, the Arctic explorer, ) in the proposed exposure of the frauds and methods of the so-called spiritualism. The Holy Office at Rome has gent a note to the Bishops of France condemning cremation, and ordering adherence to interment. A battle took place on September 29th at Hayti, between General Thaimage's forces and General Legitirne's command, beginning at 7 o'clock in the evening and lasting all night. General Thalinage was killed, and a large number were killed and wounded on both sides. Munich newspapers gave, on Oct. Bth, the details of a plot to assassinate the Emperor William while in South Germany. It appears that ten Anarchists left Switzerland with the intention of blowing the Kaiser into pieces with bombs as he was passing through Wurtemburg. The route was changed on this account. The ex-Empress Victoria is much incensed by the Emperor's refusal to grant the use of the Neve Palace at Potsdam, her country residence ever since her marriage. Archbishop Craumer's library, one of the finest collections of the fifteenth and sixteenth century literature, has lately been discovered after having been long entirely lost sight of. The London Times has subpoenaed Timothy Harrington to produce the books of the Ladies' National League and Labour Industrial Union from 1878 to 1888 for examination in the Parnell suits. The defendants will also subpoena Mensrs Parnell, Biggar, McArthy, Campbell, Sexton. Nolan, Quinn, Cox, Kerry, and T. P. O'Connor on their side.