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White men on strike at Lamont, in Illinois, persisting in assaults on negro free labourers, the latter fired on their assailants. Nine were killed and seventeen captured by the negroes. The Chicago Navy Club is urging the Oxford and Cambridge Universities, the Australian colonies and the Berlin and Dublin Clubs to com pete at a regatta on Lake Geneve, in Wisconsin, on the 24th August. It is reported that the Queen of Hawaii has accepted the conditions laid down by the United States, and will shortly be restored. A receiver has been appointed for the Manitoba and North-western Railway Company, in consequence of its failure to meet the interest on bonds helds in England. A revolt occurred among 600 convicts near Cairo, and before the disturbance was quelled 39 of them were shot dead by the Guards. Eleven succeeded in effecting their escape. News has been received from Sibera that a party of convicts, while on a journey, effected their escaped and killed and ate the weakest of the band. When recaptured they were found to be insane.
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Manawatu Herald, 15 June 1893, Page 2
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179Foreign. Manawatu Herald, 15 June 1893, Page 2
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