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(BY ELECTRIC TEtWllAPks' i COIPYUIQHT.) fREaTER'fI TELEGRAMS.") LojrooKT, April 19. j^ousq' of Commons ,to,-da3i; tbe thiißighfi ; H^q. Hflgh Childe^Hotiiej S^eretarv,' announced bis intention to introdnfe a Bill to compensate the snnerers by the late riots in.A^measureito be applicable to the whole country as well as to London. o «**»**xs^-. M'GHTREit, 1 Ai^il'l9. ■■•* Heavy rains melting the snow in the interior^haye;- -caused s the t St. Lawrence ; . River to rise to an abnormal height, the result, being that the city has been com- ' jilfet^lyiirtundated'inthe Tow' lying parts causing immense damage to property, • and^rendering many families homeless. : 4 j-i;--js-. ; ;t.i .:■ Sydney, Tuesday. ? Anbthßr death' has occurred from the eXplosibn : of fire lamp in 'the Lithejow - eollievyi "'■ -The remaining four men are jjrbgjrfcssjng -favorably towards recovery. jQI ( ibo six men killed- were marriead men ai{cf 'a distressinfj; scene ensued at the •pjji|s inontb -when the news of the ,accid6n v t'b6caHie ■known. There was no lack of volunteers to search for their "cornrades", feheir efforts to rescue them tfeirig of the most Heroic nature; • h . ' -ftl eluourdtb, Tuesday. The agitation against the French occ". partion ''of : the New' Hebrides continues throughout the colony. At the annual rne;e%m^ of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce held yesterday reßolutions were- t>i?assefl protesting against the French annexation, of the. Islahds. 1 : The qugstiohwas discussed % at a Jarge^ public meeting' ' held last night in the" , Town ffill ntider the presidency. 6i , Alderman J>'d St'ctvart, Mayor oE Melboiirn'ej'when resolutions of a' similar -purport 'were unanimously adooted. ->:•"•■■ " < ; ; (UNITED .PRESS. ASSOCIATION.) . ?' '■■■■* Puned^, Tuesday. In the "Wilson, Harraway,& Co., vN'atidoitl Inaurahce, in which a special jury found for plaintiff £2250, in con heetibn with the loss of the Star of the South, at Greymouth, Judge Williams has now; non-suited the plaintiffs i. with >. costs, holcjing tliere was not evidence of Barratry and the case should be, with drawn i'rdni the jury on that gronnd. V": Bleniteim, Tuesdjiy. - An inquest on Whittington : Lane, whp.was accidentally shot at Havelock, on Sunday morning, resnlted in a verVfict of accidental cieath. The jury .censured the doctor for ordering the remo'yalbf'the deceased to Blenheim ih such 1 an exhausted state and in such weather v i- :
JjiThei above items were published as a sapplement to a portion :of the Town Edition in- pnr previous issue;] .-. <:
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1690, 21 April 1886, Page 3
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380LATEST NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1690, 21 April 1886, Page 3
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