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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2596, 2 March 1889, Page 2

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[HV KU-X'TIUC TKLKI.;KArH.-IJOI'YIUr,HT.| London, February 27. A laumiuii increase to the German navy is proposed. Twenty-six thousand workmen have left the Panama- Canal works, The Russian press insists on England controlling the Ameer of Afghanistan. The Emperor of China was married yesterday. February 2S. Messrs Rothschilds have floated a company to work the Burmah ruby mines. There was a great rush for shares. Mr Jabez .Spencer, a Gladstone Liberal, has been returned unopposed fer Burnley, The Maori football team played a match at Leigh (Lancashire), and were defeated by a goal and a try to a try. '.Hip. Marquis of Hartington urges that political offenders should receive different treatment to ordinary criminals. In the action brought in Ireland by Mr Parnell against the Times, the defendants are opposing the jurisdiction of the Dublin Court. The Marquis of .Salisbury says there is a rapid revival of trade throughout the United Kingdom. A cartridge factory at Wyoming, New York, blew up, and 11 girls went killed. Prince Alexander of Lattenberg has arranged a morganatic marriage with Eraulein Doesenquier, an operatic singer, whose father is his valet d<: chumbre. February 2S. Sir C. Tapper has sailed for Canada with the intention of negotiating a treaty with the United States so soon as President Harrison is installed. Russia is stated to be monopolising the trains on the Caucasian railway for the transport of troops eastward to the exclusion of the ordinary traffic.

Washington, February '28. Mr Win. Window has been appointed Treasurer to the United States Cabinet.