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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2608, 30 March 1889, Page 2

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(BY ELKCTHIC TKLKGKAPH.— COPYRIGHT). London, March 27. Bettjxg is 7 fo 4 on Cambridge for tiie University JSoat Race. 'Die Great i'o.vcrs are to he invited to a conference to consider the suppression of the slave trade. The case against Dr. King, Bishop of Lincoln, charged with ritualism, has concluded. The bench of Bishops reserved judgment. De'gaty and Co. have a dividend of eigut per cent. News has been received of the death of the lion. Guy Dawnay, who was killed by a buffalo in a hunting expedition in Maissailand. He was a brother of the present Viscount Downes, and formerly a member for the North Riding of Yorkshire, in the House of Commons. I ruth, referring to the recent appointment of the Rev. H. H. Montgomery, to the Bishopric of Tasmania, says the rev. gentleman's ability is only of mediocre order and attributes his promotion to the influence of Canon Farrar. A mother threw her three young children into the Tyne river. Miss Broughton, the actress, has accepted £ 10,000 in settlement of the action for breach of promise against Viscount Daiigan. Cardinal Newman is much all'ected by ihe death of Archbishop Ullatkorne Lenisk, in Russia, has been destroyed by fire, and 84 inhabitants perished. It is proposed to establish a regency in Holland, under the Queen. Mr Robert Lincoln, son of President Lincoln, has been appointed U. S. Minister to Eng and. The Duke of Buckingham is dead. General Boulanjror is seriously ill with the re-opening of the wound received in the duel with M. Fioquet. New York, March 28. By the foundering of the excursion steamer oti Lake Ohupola, Mexico, thirty persons lost their lives. Pakis March 28. ZersculoiT, son of the Swiss Consul at Cannes, was found murdered in a carriage on a railway train, (ieneva. There is no clue, to the murderer. Br/ciiAKKST, March 2S. Prince Ferdinand, son of Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern Sigmavingen, and nephew of King Charles of Roumania, has been publicly proclaimed heir to the Roumanian throne. Berlin', March 28. Emperor William was present at the dinner given by Prince Bismarck to members of Reichstag.