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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2630, 21 May 1889, Page 2

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(bv laixrrmc THr,K(:n.\rii — corviur.iiT.) LONMION. Miiv 18. A.v imposing reception will Ik; given King Iltunbert on his visit to Berlin. A disastrous firo broke out at Quobor. and destroyed live hundred houses. Tl\o capital of the now Oomptoir fl'Escompto, forty million francs, lias boon subscribed threefold. Tlio Budget has passed through Oommittoo. The Shall of Persia lias boon accorded a splendid reception at St. Petersburg. The widow of Irving Bishop accuses the doctors of performing the autopsy on him whilst in a cataleptic fit. His funeral was postponed in consequence, and an inquest will be held. The medical gentleman wlio operated lias been arrested. The Samoan Conference is expected to close on Tuesday. The Pope has been taken suddenly ill. Mr Labouchere's motion to abolish the House of Lords was rejected by a majority of -11. A grand review will be held at Afdershot during the visit of the German Emperor. Two hundred Radical members of the House of Commons signed a memorial to the French President, regretting the absence of Lord Lvttou at the opening of tho Exhi-

bition. All hope of saving H.M.s. Sultan has been abandoned. The personal estate of the late Sir Thomas Gladstone has been sworn at £251.000. Prince Albert Victor will leave for Belfast on Monday. It has been decided to evict tenants on the Irish Estates of Viscount Masseroone and replace thorn with Ulster Protestants. It is feared bloodshed will result. New Zealand wheat, long berried, ex store, is 38s Gd; hemp, £36 os to £oG 10s. May lo._ Mr Garner, of the firm of Williamson, Garner and Musgrove, has purchased the Australian rights for " Paul Jones." Tho opera will bo produced in Melbourne at Christmas, with Clara Melville as prim a, donna in place of Nellie Stewart, who is now playing the leading role in tho '•Yeoman of the Guard." Mrs Adams, widow of Stephen Adams, has been arrested on a charge of poisoning her husband's brother. James May brick, merchant of Liverpool.