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[RE UTE R’S TE CEO RAMS. ] Lv Electric Telegraph—Copyright. THE HOME RULE BILL. EXPECTED DISSOLUTION OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. ANNEXATION OF THE KERMODEC ISLANDS GROUP. (Received May 18, 1.5 a.m.) London, May 17. It is expected that the debate on the Home Rule Bill will bo sufficiently advanced to allow of a division being taken on Friday next. ihe dissolution of Parliament is generally regarded as inevitable. The British Government intend to annex the Kermodec group of islands, lying about 400 miles north of New Zealand, in lat. 31 deg. S., long, iSOdeg. E. to 178 deg. W. (Received May IS, 2 p.m.)
Evening. i Instructions have been forwarded to j
Admiral Tryon to formally annex the Kerdmadec Islands. Count Herbert Bismarck has replaced Count Halzfeldt ns German Ambassodor at the Court of St. James. Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters Association ; London, May 17. Arrived—Renfrewshire, from Lyttelton, February Ist.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2977, 18 May 1886, Page 2
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