Tue English Government is inquiriug into the alleged practice of attaching large numbers of native women to white regiments in India. It is announced that a granddaughter of Keats has heen ehosen to paint the portrait of the queen regent and young King of Spain. Tuesday, 22nd May was Golden Jubilee Day in Brazil, and although the Emperor Don Pedro lay on a bed of sickness in distaut Milan, far from his tropic home, yet his imperial decree liberating nearly 2,000,000 slaves, was promply carried out. What a breaking of shackles from human limbs has taken place in the '<ast twenty-seven years! in that time Uussia has freed 23,000,000 ; Poland, 5,000,000 ; United States, 4,000,000, and Brazil 2,000,000.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2504, 28 July 1888, Page 6 (Supplement)
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117Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2504, 28 July 1888, Page 6 (Supplement)
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