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Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1722, 1 June 1886, Page 3

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♦ — GENERAL SUMMARY. M. Henri Eochefort and M. Portalles fought an ineffective -duel with pistols noar Paris, on May 7. ■ |The cholera epidemic is spreading at fFenice, Vicenza, and Buri. :. "•■": \j ;Some Mormon missionaries were severe • ly heaten m Switzerland, on May7th, by friends of Swiss girls, who had been badly treated m Utah. . .; ; : r ' . ; ■The Emperor of Geitnany. has sent the Pjppe a large gold cro3s7 j"e\velledi for the services m arbitrating m the Caroline. Island dispute. IJKei^M^liqja^eceiyed from that tm?wwfl\>£(Friedland, the Moravia, apd the towns of Dobrow, Laney, Bozf.anice, Chigron, and Xanok,- have been Iflpstrpved by fifes. " . .. iiDfil^flilfe'a^anceiivrea of; the British ,^9lrfnteeV|- at, ■Dover, and Portsmouth I bpj April X^Gth were very successful. The-'wfetfhfer was brilliant, and the exercises: at •: both, places were witnessed by i crowd«.; : -<■'■; .■■'■'■ : Rioting and bloodshed have taken place m Chicago and. Milwaukie, chiefly among: foreign workmen. : Nova Scotia is moving to dissolve her connection with the Dominion of Canada,; and with Nfcw Brtmwick and Prince Edward Island to form a Maritime Confederation. A resolution to this effect was introd need m the Legislature at Halifax on May 7. '■ The stock of "Patterson, Kiseock and Go., of Montreal, valued at £420,000 was seized by the Customs autiiorities Oh the 7th Mayfor smuggling. Chinese Companies have contracted to build railroads m Mexico. The Wova. Scotia Legislature passed resolutions on May sth, endorsing Mr Gladstone's Irish policy. Bills have been introduced into the N*\v York Legislature declaring boy. cofcting not to be a conspiracy or misdemeanour. A great many Mormon families — mostly English — are migrating into Mexico from Utah, t6 avoid pro edition under the United States anti-polygamy law. All the labor unions of San Francisco, under the general name of the Federate! Trades, had arranged for a grand parade on Tuesday, May 11. Many thousand workmen were expected to be present. The labor agitations are still rife m the Eastern States. They are nliiefiv fomented by Tnsh and German leaders. Twenty-five thousand workmen struck m various shops and factories of Chicago on April 29th. Two albums, each containing all the Home Rule editorials of the American Press, are m course of preparation m New York. One will be forwarded to Mr Gladstone and the other to Mr Parnell. The National Liberal Federation of Scotland adopted resolutions on April 29 favoring Mr Gladstone's Bill. Mr Gladstone's measure, . says the Nation,m v&ns peace to the Irish throughout the world. The Earl of Derby published, a letter on May sth, deriving the moral right of the presett Parliament to decide the Irish question.