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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 699, 7 December 1876, Page 3

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There has been wine panic on the Stock exchange m iom« foreign bonds, princilally m Russian, which have been large.? offered at . decliue oi 2*d to 5 per cent. Servia is willing to acceptthestutu.quo, provided the T*rks Jgive .guarantees for li oner government in Bosnia. , An l"d.au newspaper, the " Pioneer, sums up tin prospect! as to famine in Bombay as followi : " There is tamine in fcShelapore, extreme dearth at Poonah, and great icurcity in six oilier districts. All these dis'ricts will jield only a portion of their ordinary revenue. It is hoped that the distress may b« relieved at a sixlh oi the fo»t ol Bengal famine." Ihe man ot-war Nelson, o r seven thou■and tons displacement, six thousand horn* po» ci , and twenty guns, lias been launched at Glasgow. ... leu tuousß«d "Danish pilgrims visited the Pop*. The pilgrimage was accompanied by Carlirt de%!>?trs>ionß Ihe Spanish (iovenm.nt usued a circular forbidding Protestant wor.Uip outtid* the churcliei, ai.d insi.ting that all Protestant schools must be under Bpani-h schoolmasters. A Eepubhcan conspiracy has been discovered, and Several arrests made. " Standard's" Pans special reporta duel fought on Swiss territory between Vioomie Baiuel desKool.es and Paul Gerard. Latter was pierced by an antagonist's sword, nnd bin life is in danger. Ihe affair ia lh« result of a political quarrel. AdTices from Cape Coast C<wtle to October sth announce tb^t Dahounana are threatening Grand Popo. They have taken two adjacent villages, killing all fc men, and currying off eighty women and The London " Times" -reviews New Zealand's financial condition favourably, but does not speak so wall of other Colonies. It concludes : " They ar« trvine a hazardous experiment, and we trust that Ilieyureno* too rashly discounting «he value of reproductive works which the m xl generation may still find charged on the Colonial Kxobcquer." A lutk-out ol 80,000 persons was threatened by the Lancashire cotton spinners, owing to ihe.refu»al of the Association to be bound by existing regulations tor controlling wages. Negociationa averted a lock-out. „ Tue bon W Fox wrote to <he " Times defending piovmciali-min part, butagieemg with .he ad»i»ability of aboli ion.