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Kaikoura Star, Volume XII, Issue 1, 4 January 1893, Page 2

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’ Wellington: Otago v _ Wellington. Former 154, latter 158. Rain set in yesterday afternoon, and will probably atop nljte today. : S. Australia, first innings, Victoria, first innings, 180. S. Am Italic, Second innings, 6 wickets for 29G. .• '

‘’, Cable News Condensed. Hemp market unchanged. New British coinage will be issued in January. Court martial of Rear-Admiral Fairfax, in connection with grounding of H.M.S. Howe on Spanish coast, opened. He is accused of having laid a hazardous course, and of entering Ferrol. Wharton, hydrographer, doubted the wisdom of the course set.

Prince of Wales, Lord Brassey, J, Chamberlain, Ritchie (late President of Board of Trade) and B'o-idhurst, M.P. for Nottingham, are among members of Royal Commission to inquire into question of making provision tor aged poor. Times condemns exclusion of members of clergy of Church of England from the Commis-

sion. Bristol Magistrates summoned BenTillet to answer a charge of inciting to riot. Prospect of cotton strike ending, owing to stocks of yarn being exhausted. 11,000 operatives engaged in Yorkshire bottle trade struck against reduction of wages. London School Board discussing propriety of introducing free dentistry for scholars.

Str.ke aff cting 90,000 miners in S. Wales averted by colliery owners agreeing to continue the sliding scale agreement. Paris : Serious outbreak of cholera at Gravelines, seaport at mouth of the Aa, 10 miles S W of Dunkirke. Excess o‘deaths of French people over births in France for 1891 was 10,000, and would have been 19.000 but for excess of births over deaths amongst Foreign residents. . . , , Believed Compte de Pans has wired the Due d’Orleans to return from Africa. Believed explosion of bomb at Paris Prefecture of Police was caused by a dismissed policeman. Berlin : Miners at Saarbruck are arming. New York : Fierce fights taking place over gold claims in San Tuan. S. W. Colorado. Eleven fatalities recorded. Rockfeller, head of Standard Oil Coy, wealthy citizen, who in March donated £200,000 to Baptist University, Chicago, given another £200,000 to it. War pending between Nicaragua and Costa Rica owing to dispute over Panama boundary. General impression Cleveland will not summon a special Congress until Autumn. N. York Sun asserts Harrison has determined, as an outgoing blow, to abolish privileges of Canadian railways with regard to transport of merchandise in bond through U. States free of duty. Another accident in thawing dynamite. While miners in Pennsylvania were engaged in the operation cartridges exploded, killing 4 persons. Adelaide: Rusden, historian, returned to Colonies. He announces his intention of permanently residing in Australia-