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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3428, 6 February 1890, Page 2

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The Town Council of Dublin voted down by a large majority a resolution inviting the Queen to that city;

A row occurred at the Pelican Club on tlio Bth January, Lord Mandeville was badly pummelled by Mitchell, the pugilist. The fugitives from England on account of the 11 Clovelund-street scandal" now number sixty.

Tho Boston merchants' Association adopted on January 7, a resolution favouring tho free admission of wool. Bloody riots have taken place in tho .Southern States between the whites and blacks, It is stuteil thai Mr Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan lias quarrelled about the" Gondolier" Company, that wont to America, and liavo dissolved partnership. It is reported tliat Sir Arthur Sullivan had made overturn to Eugine Field, of Chicago, to take Gilbert's place. Mr Thomas Cook, senior member of tho well-known firm of tourist agents, died at Thornycroft on January 3,

The German Government have decided on further armament, ond the Spandan gun factories are going night and dty. Miss Sterling entered the cage of lions at Bezierea on January 7, supposing the animals wore hypnotized and harmless, But for the interference of a lion lamer she would have been torn to pieces, As it was she was badly lacerated, She made a second attempt a few days aft jr, and a lion iuflicted still more serious injury. Onoof her lowjr limbs had to bo amputated.

I Evidence was discovered recently connecting Alga Goutschareniks, a I young and boautiful girl, with a Nihilist plot at Warsaw to assassinate tho Czar. Tlio chief of police attempted to arrest her on January 10, when she shot him dead and blow out her own brains,

The sum of one hundrod thousand dollars has been paid by Cornelius Vanderbilt forTurner'spielure,-" The Grand Canal of Venice."

A murderer named Higgiubotham, who murdered a woman, was hanged at Warivido, oil January 7th. When tho body fell the noose opened an old wound in tho neck, whero he had stabbed himself with suidical intent when arrested. The hlood' spurted out, deluging the hangman's assistant, The brigantino Czarowitz Was cut down and sunk in the Iribh Sea by tlio White Star liner Britannia on the night of January 8, The captain of the Czarowitz was lost.

The Premier, Timd, has sent n circular letter to tho Chambers of Commerce, through France, asking those bodies if they would support a Bill, giving women ongaged in any trade the right tp voce at elections for judges of commercial tribunals, Paris despatches of December 30 quote private letters from St Petersburg to the effect that the recent socalled " relapse" of the Czar was not a return of the influenza but a much more serious matter. While in appar. ently good health he was seized with pains in the stomach after leaving the table, liis attendants became greatly alarmed and summoned the physicians, who administered remedies for poison, The Court story is that poison was found.raixed with the food which the Czar had eaten. The Nihilists confirm the report' and boast that the poison was administered by one of their number. Tho Czar's condition was critical for some time, but powerful antidotes and Bkilful treatment saved his life,

Early on the morning of January 1, «fire broke oat jn Forest fiato pauper Boliool for boys and. girls, London, whilo they ween - still asleep, and in a short time 2(5 in the spper stories were suffocated. - Fifty •eight were safely taken from the building. Tjiere, tfera six hundred persous altogether in the iuatitiitiop. The

fdmile depui'traenti wln-re there weio 260 girls, was not touched, The boys had retired tho previous evening in good spirits, having been promised aiele on New Year's Day, and the building was decorated throughout for the occasion. Of the 26 boys who lost their lives only two wore burned to death. The hero af the time ,\vus &.boy.wl|o.ucted.tis. monitor., in the fatal ward. Through his utfortß many boys.were literally driven • from the building, and He'ceased the work of rescue only when forced back.' by the flames.