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Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 337, 6 September 1898, Page 3

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James Finney swam from Blackpool to St. Anne's, four miles, in a rough sea, the distance being accomplished in close upon s'x hours. He won £330. Signor Succi, the hero of a number of previous fasting feasts, has fasted 33 days at Turin. President Kruger has closed the Zanda river drift towards the Bechuanaland border against oversea traffic, without British consent. The Reichsrath meets on the 29th inst. to disouss the Ausgeich. The steamer Morayshire, built by Messrs Hawthorn, Leslie and Co., to the order of Messrs Turnbull, Martin and Co., owners of the Shire line, to replace the steamer of the same name, recently sold, in the Anstralasian frozen meat trade, has been launched. The Labour Congress at Bristol hai recommended the trades unions to support Socialism, on the grounds that the labour problem can only be solved when the means of production, distribution and exchange are common property. The Congress condemned the Government's education policy as insufficiently liberal. Vessels of all nations are no»v admitted to the harbour of Manila. A plot has been discovered to murder Baron Banffy, the Hungarian Premier. The joint Conference of owners and colliers at Newcastle, New South Wales, drafted a proposal, which the miners will submit to the Delegate Board. The transaction was secret ; but it is believed the miners strongly object to making the minimum height of the bord 4ft. Bin., and demand sft. They consider the increase of the selling rate and advance of the hewing rate good concessions ; but discounted by the reduction of the bord. General Pando and his Secretary have left Cuba for Spain, taking with them 12 million francs.