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Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1481, 31 December 1881, Page 2

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Lojtdox, December 28. A proclamation has been issued by the Irish Executive declaring that the posting of notices to quit will henceforth be s deemed good services in disturbed districts. Sir Charles Dilke, the Unclev-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, has left for Paris to join in the Anglo-French Treaty negotiations which are now proceeding in that city. Sir Robert Lush, one of the Lords Justices of Appeal, is dead, aged 74. The Governor of Eastern Siberia reports that the steamer Jeanette, fitted out for Arctic exploration purposes by Mr James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald, and generally believed to have perished, has been discovered safe. The Atlantic steamer Bath City has been wrecked and ten persons drowned. She was a vessel of 1724 tons, built in 18S0. The members of the Ladies' Land League have been suppressed by Government as seditious and illegal. The Association have held a meeting and openly defied the action of the Government. The Customs authorities at New York have discovered 2,800 cases of rifles shipped for Liverpool and described as hardware. The Orient Company's new steamer Australia, built entirely of steel, has been launched. She is intended for the Anglo-Australian trade. A thermometer known to have been in the balloon in which Mr Powell, M.P., was a passenger, has been picked up on the sands near Portland. ~ It can scarcely be doubted that the balloon and all in it perished. ■ i Six ladies have contributed £9000 to a fund initiated for the defence of property during the present period of lawlessness in Ireland, , - , Since < the catastrophe at f the , Rink Theatre/ Vienna, the public have almost entirely foresaken the other theatres in thatcity.'.-flu ordertb'-racfcore>confidence-the lessees qf, the -various' theatres formed jk deputation to the Emperor asking, that * experts ;Ve ■ appointed^ to report on the means of egress fronvtheit buildings, '