Saturday.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 746, 12 June 1894, Page 5

Saturday.

LONDON, June 7 Bishop Tucker, of East Africa, considers events will soon compel building of railway to Uganda, as a means of restraining slavers, thus securing safety of British stations on Lake Victoria Nyanza. Sutherland will case settled by Court. The Duchess, who claimed £1,500,000, awarded £500,000, with an annuity of £5,000. Balfour given notice to move that House support Govt in construction of railway to Uganda. House of Commons, by majority of 104, adopted principle of graduated taxation as proposed in new Income Tax and Succession Duties. Baden Powell withdrawn amendment attacking death duties pending action of colonies. CONSTANTINOPLE, June G Turkish officials much concerned to find French troops garrisoned in citadel at Kusaburgen, though the spot is well within frontier of Tripoli. Tripolitans are much alarmed, and fear French invasion is intended. CALCUTTA, June 7

M. Hoffman, of Pasteur’s Institute, now visiting India, inoculated 25,000 persons with cholera vaccine, with remarkable success.

WASHINGTON, June 7 At Peoria, Illinois, mob of a thousand strikers blew up powder magazine. Fight ensued with nonUnionists, in which two of latter were killed, and number mortally wounded.

Floods in Fraser river increasing. Towns along its course in darkness, gasworks being flooded. Devastation is appalling. Whole hamlets have disappeared in raging torrent. American coal owners importing men to replace strikers and protecting mines by armed guards.