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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 114, 13 May 1873, Page 3

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London, May 6The vintage in South France is wholly destroyed, Gang Forward won the Newmarket Two Thousand Guineas Stakes,Kaiser second,Sulieman third; The Thousand Guineas Stakes: CeciUa 1, Angela 2, Windermere 3. Gapg Forward is the favorite for the Derby at 9 to 4. iThe Italian Ministry, resigned on the 2nd May, on an adverse vote of the Assembly affirming the necessity of the re es'abli«hment of an areenal at Toranto. On the solicitation of the King the ministers resolved to re-consider their decision. M. Thiers asks the confidence of. the re- * publicans, and. declares that though the situation is full of difficulties they may be surmounted. Gibbs and Bright's .Cape Company is withdrawn. . A motion in the House of Commons, asking for. the views of the Government re local taxation was -negatived without a division. The Germans are preparing to evacuate Belfort. A stormy conflict between the radicals and the monarchists in the French Assembly is looked for. The Vienna Exhibition opened on the Ist May. The Prince of Wales and Prince Arthur were present. — A grand banquet was given at the palace to the commissioners. The Tichborhe claimant asks now for a supply of funds to defend him, his funds being exhausted. The Women's Suffrage Bill has been rejected. Five thousand bales of wool have been sold. The French competition was brisk. Scoured unchanged ; greasy improved. The Russian forces have advanced to Mamaskotan. The fourth milliard of the French war debt haß been paid to Germany. The Dublin University Bill has passed through Committee in the House of Commons. New York, May s.—The British Government have proposed a mixed commission to meet at Washington re the Canadian frontier question. . There has been a great slaughter of soldiers by the Indians near Minosota. -