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NEW FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO BRITISH TREASURY.
HOMEWARD BRINDISI MAILS
YACHT MIGNONETTE TRAGEDY. THE MURDER OF THE BOY PARKER. SENTENCE of DEATH on CAPTAIN AND MATE.
ARRIVAL OF THE NEW VICEROY
OF INDIA
NAVIGATION OF THE CONGO AND NIGER RIVERS. SUSPENSION OF THE EGYPTIAN CAISSE. JUDGMENT FOR THE CONTINENTAL POWERS. (Received December 10, 12.55 a.m.) London, December 8. J. T. Hibbert, M.P. for Oldham, and a Political Secretary in the Home Office, is appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury, vice Leonard H. Courtney, resigned.
The homeward Biindisi mails, pelOrient steamship Potosi, from Melbourne, October 31, were delivered to-day.
(Received December 10, 11.30 a.m.)
December 9
The Special Court to-day passed sentence of death on Captain Dndley and the mate Stephens, of the yacht Mignonettee, for the murder" of the bov Parker. '
(Received December 10, 12.55 a.m.)
Bombay, December 8
Earl Dufferin, who succeeds the Marquis of Ripon as Viceroy of India, arrived hete to-day, and received a cordial welcome.
(Received December 10, 11.30 a.m.) Berlin, December 9.
The International Conference has agreed to freedom of navigation on the Congo and Niger rivers. International control, however, is to be confined to the Congo, while England will control the Lower and France the Upper Niger.
Cairo, December 9,
Judgment has been given against the Egyptian Government iu the action brought by French, Austrian, and Italian members of the Caisse of Public Debt to prevent the suspension of the sinking fund.
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London, December 4
Two hundred thousand salmon ova will be forwarded to Tasmania in January.
The new Oriental Bank propose to issue £80,025 special shares on receiving £150,000. The liquidator of the old Bank will assign the assets. Twelve Chinese men-of-war have been ordered to the Island of Formosa, to take part in the operations against the French there.
Several members of the crew of the thip Berengaria, which went ashore on the coast of Essex, and a passenger named Gray, have been rescued. The captain, second mate, pilot, and eight of the crew are still reported as missing.
December 6
A Committee of the French Chamber have recommended a heavy increase of the duties on flour and corn, and a movement is on foot to organise a powerful Freetrade Society. The rumor that the New South Wales Government has ordered several gunboats is without foundation.
December 7.
The French Senate has rejected the amendment by the Chamber of Deputies that the Senate should be elected by universal suffrage.
The New Zealand Shipping Company Limited, have received advice from Hobart of the arrival there at 2 a.m. on 6th inst, of the R.M.S. Kaikoura, having made the fastest passage on record, viz., 36 days 18 hours' steaming from Plymouth. In latitude 45° south, longtitude 86° east, a slight mishap occurred to the machinery, otherwise the passage would have been accomplished in considerably less time. The R.M.S. Kaikoura is due at Port Chalmers on Wednesday, and will be dispatched from the colony on the 20th inst., with the first of her Majesty's mails under the contract just concluded with the Government.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2579, 10 December 1884, Page 2
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