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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 2621, 30 April 1889, Page 2

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(Br KLKCTIUO TELKGU.U'II -COPYKIGHT.) London. April 20. The committee of the Senate engaged iu diiirgus against General Bou anger, state he received l.irijo .sums for promising to alter tiic law. General Boulanger will g<) to America or Sydney if compelled to leave England. Sir F. I). Bell says the Paris Exhibition will be the best ever seen. During tho riots in Vienna, 200 persons were wounded, including GO soldiers and police. Mr Gosclien will redeem £15,000,000 consols on Hth May. There is enormous emigration from United States into Canada. Three hundred thousand colliers demand an increase of 10 per cent. Sir John Lawes bequeaths £100,000 and fifty acres of land to promote agricultural science. In his article on the Samoan question in the Century, Mr G. Bates criticised the German policy in severe terms, and warns England to be on her guard. April 28. Mr Alfred Russell Wallace, the eminent ethnologist, will visit Australia shortly, and will, upon his return, write a book on Australian ethnology. Major Hawkins, who is in charge of Ihe Sydney branch of Commissionaires Corps, has cabled to Capt. Sir E. Walter, founder of the Society, that he fears the Labour Union will probably drive the Commissionaires out of Sydney.

Zakicii, April 28. Four girls, tourists visiting Switzerland, have been drowned in Lake Zurich by tho capsizing of a boat. Trieste, April 2S. The post-office in this city has been robbed of 53,000 florins.