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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 80, 5 January 1892, Page 3

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Auckland, January 2. •: Mt Chamberlain h^s jB drait of the "Worimen's, Pension Bill to"?MJr Mprjey for yjubniissiqn, to Mr Gladstone The" GbVerflmett^' after 1 corisiilia'tioA with landlords, 'has ddeiiaed to introduce at the coming session- a Bill recasting the whole 'law of evidence mainly with thfc object of allowing, criminals to testify. 'i^i their.own.behajf. , ; ,f ( .* u x ; , ■ ■.. ; Sit "William* Jenner, called . $9, ,see -thb Qneen at Windsoif Castle;' Her "Majesty was attacked Jby rfie'umatiani in the kneel. Ovring 3b J his' phyScaT : Mditi6n Mr Gladstone hai been strongly advised by me^io»lfinien;nbfe/ioi open his mouth in pobjo MU.he^as.pw^si^n to speak ifa the House of Commons. . ; . ; At Millwall on.. December 9th. three Prussians' and foui' EnglisH sailors \ qur--relledi:: One 1 Englishmaii' was .killed, another was fatally injured, and a thifrd seriously cat. '>■--<> - • . ! Mr C. B. Taylor, a noted. Liverpool merchant, committed suicide.. Financial losses caused a mental derangement. : William Henry Houlbert, formerly ejditor of the; Net? York V?orldj and lately defendant in the English Court in a case of breach of ]gfo'misW brought, on by Misis Gladys'Eveflyn/has mote troubles ahead. He is .looked f , for. >bj{ Scotland Yard detectives with a. for his arrest for perjury in connection with the Evelyn C&BP* . • • - . -■ \ ' A fafai e^lb'sibn. JK^nrred in'the madket at Blaekburrij 80 smiles from Manchester, by which three buildings were demolished,: and 20 persons lulled, arid a great many -more ; injured.- Before the poljafyCouM n^e a thorough seajrch fair the dead, the irujuos^ were in .flames v a,nd approach ' Wa s; impossible.. The, dead in the ruins were'bupit beyond recognitio^. The cause of the ■ disaster was an explosion of gas.. The men who had charge of the gasometer were arrested and sub-. seqbenOy jreleased-lon bail. A:searohing ; party had found-nine bodies bodies in the ruins ottiPecembeE -lsfc. \ • • ' ■ : , Parisians ■ give eaget : credence to the recent rnmottr that the Emperor of Q&fmany »^B»n«,7v:;: ■■/■ ; ••; # i A gentleman named Victor Germaide sttot and killed himself in the neighbourhood/ofiMilttri» i«ftef haying lort every son he possessed a^ the Monte Carlo gambling tables. '''"' / ,';'"' ..',..-, .--■,' I/arge of nounshmg goods are being; imported into. Poland. As 1892 m, the? centennial = qf . the lp,ss of her Ifldepenflejipe, women -are; preparing to wear Wackfo^36&4ays. % „.,.;, „ ;