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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2533, 4 October 1888, Page 2

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(by electric telegraph—copyright.) London, October 2. Tub Pope's health is very unsatisfactory. A Chicago syndicate has cornered the wheat market and corn is soiling at two dollars a bushel. Dr. M. McKenzie's book will be prohibited in Germany. A cargo of wheat from Melbourne has been sold at 39s 3d, and Adelaide wheat at 40s. Cardinal Moran, in course of a sermon in Dublin Cathedral, said Australia was the brightest gem of the Crown to the Clinch in Christendom, and was niort; attached to the Papacy than Catholic Austria. He also added that the Irish in the Australian colonies were determined to help Ireland as far as possible to assert its rights. King Kalakaua, of Hawaii, intends to visit the Melbourne Exhibition. It is proposed to form a society in London to report on the mineral resources of the colonies. It is reported tho copper syndicates are willing to extend its agreements with the copper company's for a term of nine years, paying £72 10s per ton, with a share of the profits. Rome, October 1. Violations by French residents in Tunis, of the stipulations under which local taxes are levied, has caused some irritation in Italy. St. Petersburg, October 2. The liussian press advocate the exclusion of Chinese from Siberia.