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(by electric TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT). London, March 14. PaiNCR Bismarck is willing that England shall be the mandatory Power at Samoa. Truth says the Melbourne Exhibition was unequalled as a financial failure. Servia intends reducing her army by one half. Earl Radnor is dead. Viscount Folkestone succeeds him. In the House of Commons the Right Hon. John G. Shaw-Lefevre has given notice of his intention to ask the Right Hon. Mr IJ. W. Smith, leader of the House, whether the refusal of the Queensland Government to contribute towards the cost of the Australian squadron releases the other colonies from their engagements, or whether England will bear the Queensland proportion. Pari?. March 14. The Comptoir Descompte and Copper Syndicate are recovering from the alleets of the panic caused by the suicide of the manager of the former. Vikn'sa, March 14. The Austrian Government have stationed a corps of Observation on the Servian frontier. Twenty thousand men are ready to march at half a day's notice. Pretoria, March 14. The Presidents ©f the Transvaal and Orange Free State Republics have agreed to contract a defensive alliance in the event of unjust wars being levied on either state.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2602, 16 March 1889, Page 2
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195CABLE SUMMARY. Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2602, 16 March 1889, Page 2
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