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Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1637, 2 January 1883, Page 2

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Loxdo.v, 'D&s^nber 20>tevenifig). <|> I.v its second edition to-day, the Times .announces that it is intended to divide Zululand, and appoint British residents W botli Cotewayo arid .John Dinar. ;, The^ litter willJHt is stated, be ' permanently:!&ssigne f d the Tugela *dislrict, Which 1 * is. now under the control. The Times in an article to-day advises the Karl of Derby, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to recognise more formally .than at [the .status of "Colonial Agents-General. ''• > It is announced that General Lord Napier.of Magdala has been appointed a Field Marshal. The latest particulars to hand regardinff the disaster at a Bradford woollen mill show that thirty-six deaths were caused by the fall of the chimney, and fully fifty operatives have received injuries of a serious character. The Bank of Australasia ha 9 issued new shares to the amount of £400; 000.

BKRMNy 29. Very severe weather Kas been experienced in, Southern Germany, and heavy floods have occured in the Rhine Valley. A bridge in Lorrach, in Baden, has been washed away, and twenty persons who were on the structure at the time have been drowned.

Later. The floods in the Rhine Valley are rapidly extending, and much destruction of property is resulting, The flood waters have readied Cassel and Worms, and both places are now partially submerged.

Rome, December 30. Count de Winipufen, the AustroHungarian Ambassador to the Italian Court, commited suicide to-day by shooting himself with a revolver immediately after he had alighted from his carriage. It is underatood that his mind was deranged.

Caiko, December 30. Nine of the twenty-one Bedouins who nre alleged to have massacred Professor Palmer and Messrs Gill and Charrington, the British officers who accompanied him, have been captured. Evidence of their participation in the massacre has been obtained, and it is understood, is sufficient to ensure their conviction.

Ar,KX.\NDKIA, December 29. Intelligence is to hand that an outbreak of cholera has oceured at Mcdin.v, in Arabia, and that ten deaths aie resulting daily from the epidemic.

Pauls, December 20. The latest bulletin published reports that M. Gambetta is in a critisal state, and his condition is causing grave anxiety to his medical attendants.

Calovtta, Deeombor '}()• ■ A Burmese envoy has arrived at Kangoon with fresh propasals for the conclusion of an Anglo-Burmese Treaty.