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Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 187, 22 July 1873, Page 2

LATEST ENGLISH NEWS.

London, July 11. The motion introduced into the House of Common* for equalmng the salaried of the Irish with the Kngliih Civil Servants, was carried against the Government by a majority cf 130 to 117. Lord Caima has called the attention of the House of Peers to the course taken by the Government in accepting Mr Disraeli's amendment on the Judicature Bill. He contends that au amendment of the bill in the manner proposed by the extension of the appellate jurisdiction to Ireland and Scotland would involve a breach of the House of Lords. The New Zealand Fibre Works Company, whose capital is £100,000, are about to establish a colonial factory for the manufacture of the company's fabric. An Intercolonial Con grew i«to beheld at Berne on the Ist October, to arrange for a common postal treaty between all nations. The British have burnt the native town of Elmini because the inhabitants sided with the Aihantees. Arrangements are being mode for the construction of a line of railway from Tien Tuiu to Pekiu.

J«ly 12. His Boyal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh haa been formally betrothed to the Grand Duohess M&rie, daughter of the Czar of Russi i In Spain the L!ai lists hare been surprised by the Republican troops under (ieneral Caltrinetz, and a thousand of the insutrtctioiusts killed or captured. The London Wool Sale opened yesterday The number | of bales bubimtted uas about 701)0, and the attendance of home and foieyn buye s was l.u^e. From the first the biddings weio ivctive, and tm advance from a penny to twopence per puuuil swu, <'\u . t >3t ibl ilied '