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[By TeleobapHj] Sir William Robinson has bean appointed Governor of Hong Kong, and Sir Frederick Napier Broome Governor of Trinidad. i The French sugar bounty is now at Is lOd per cwt. A train has been overturned at the embankment of the Manchester Bhip Canal, and eleven persons killed. The managing director of the Hansard Publishing Union is to be declared abankrupt. Captain Kane, late of H.M.S Calliope, has been appointed to the command oE the training squadron. An express letter delivery has been established throughout the United Kingdom. The stock of gold in England i s 5$ millions and the reserve fund 4*
millions. The outlook of the National Hank of New Zealand is considered favourable. The result of the reduced cable tariff between England pnd several of the colonies has proved very satisfactory. Heavy losses have been made by the Queensland Investment and Land j Mortgage Company owing to the i gross and culpable mismanagement of ] the late Board in Brisbane. 1 The late Sir John Macdonald has j bequeathed a large block of shares in 1 the Canadian Pacific Railway Com- J pany in trust for his wife. 1 A work entitled " The Agriculture I of Australia," has been published by I Professor Wallace. I The President of Mexico is suffer-1 mg from insomnia. I Mr Balfour has predicted that the I general election will take place next I year. ■ The estate of the late Sir John I
Macdonald has been proved at under 200,000 dollars. Prince George leaves on a visit to India in November. German} has decided to eucourage the growing of cotton. T'4 is announced that Mr will proceed to the United the autumn, but will be visit Australia. Mr Justin McCarthy will lead thr seceding party till the eiid of the month. Mr Parnell says the consistency of two-thirds of the members of the House of Commons are is worth a sixpence. The English Bank of the Eiver Plate has been forced to suspend payment. The Navajos Indians threaten to massacre the whites of Arizona unless the sheriff releases their chief. The position of the Foreigh Minister of France has been considerably shaken. The Chamber of Deputies has exempted wool from the extra European countries surtax. Portugal has reduced the import duty on wheat to sev&n reis per kilogramme. Late reports from the country districts state that the harvest of half of European Russia is ruined. An average of 700 Jews are leaving towns in South Russia for the frontier daily. The Czar and Czarina have been coolly received in Finland. The Austrian military authorities are testing ecrasite, the new explosive. The Khurds, who forcibly abducted Miss Greenfield, a British subject, have refused to surrender her, and the Persian troops are preparing to attack them.
A match has been arranged between Prank Slavin and Charles Rowell in the form of a " go as you please " for 200 miles in 200 hours. The Chilian insurgents deny that they were defeated at Q-uasco. An important gold discovery has been made in the vicinity of Bteiglitz, about, forty miles from Melbourne, The health of Mr W. H. Smith is improving, A raid has been made upon a Chinese den in Sydney, and the majority of those arrested are well known young Europeans.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3863, 21 July 1891, Page 2
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548CONDENSED CABLES. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3863, 21 July 1891, Page 2
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