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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2644, 22 June 1889, Page 2

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(BY ELECTIUC TELEUUAI'H—COPYRIGHT.) London, June 20. The French Government intend to ask for a naval credit of fifty and sixty million francs, and Austria for an extra military credit of a million florins.

It is stated Servia rejected the secret Russian convention through pressure by Austria. The " Escaped Nun " was mobbed at the Kensington Town Hall. The London butchers are indignant at the Prince of Wales' statement that a leper is in the meat market, and deny it.

A shipment of mutton and fruit from South America, preserved by the new process, rotted in the tropics. A similar shipment from India was successful.

Dillon has remitted £1,200 from Australia with a jubilant letter. One of Oaptain Wissmann's steamers has been found.

The Quewn has sent a message condoling with the people in the cholera-stricken district in India.

A popular vote in Pennsylvania has rejected prohibition. The President of the Epidemiological Society confirms the statement recently made by the Prince of Wales to the effect that at the present time a leper was engaged in the London meat market

Sir John Stainer, Mus. Doc. Inspector of Music to tlio Education Department and formerly organist of St. Paul's, succeeds the late Rev. Sir Frederick A. Sonsley as Professor of Music at the University of Oxford.