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[united press association,] amissLondon, March 5, Mr Rhoderick Nicholas O'Connor, C.M.G., succeeds Sir John Walsham as British Minister at Pekin, the latter having been removed to Bucharest, The Falkland Islands have been gazetted a colony, and Sir RT. Goldsworthy will retain the Governorship, Madame Melba has scored a brilliant triumph at Eomo in the opera " Lucia de Lanimermoor." It is staled that since August 94,000 deaths above tho average have been recorded in the Madras Presidency owing to famine. Vice-Admiral Fairfax, second Naval Lord, will take command of the' Channel-squadron in June. March 6.
It is reported Lord Gormanston willbe appointed Governor of Western Australia,
Mr Henry Tate has withdrawn bis offer of £BO,QOQ for the erection of a pioturo gallery at South Kensington, and also his offer to presont a collection of pictures as the nucleus for a National Gallery ot British Art because the Chancellor of the Exchequer has failed lo provide a suitable site for the building. The press express general regret that the splendid offer was not accepted. The Economist deolara that any colony giving an nssuranoe to retrain from borrowing for the present can count on its securities having passed the lowest point. The Economist conaidera that tho rapid expansion of exports from New Zealand, Queensland, and Victoria is a proof that the borrowing has had a Biilutary effect,
The House of Commons, by a majority of 08, voted a sura of for carrying out the survey of the railway route from . Mombassa to Lake Viotoria Nyanza. Mr Gladstone opposed the vote, fearing that if the object wore carried out it would lead to war with the natives, FOREIGN.
Paris, March S. A burglar, who was fleeing from hia pursuers iu the streets of Paris to-day, turned on them and shot three dead before being overpowered,
New York, March 5. During the hearing of a charge of horse-stealing in an Indiana (Joiirfc, the prisoner fired at the Bench, killing tho Mayor and Marshal. Tho culprit was lynched by tho mob, The Mring Sea arbitration treaty will be submitted to the Senate next week,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4057, 8 March 1892, Page 2
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351NEWS BY CABLE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4057, 8 March 1892, Page 2
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