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[lit KLKCTUIU TRt.KGUAL'H—UOL'YMGHT.'I London, November 27. A lunatic asylum in Idaho, United States, has been burned down, and eight patients perished.
The wharfingers have conceded the labourers' demand for payment for tlie dinner hour. Thirty thousand miners at Newport havi.' declared in favour of eight hours' work. The Unionists have resolved to form a National party. November 28. The sentence of death passed on Lawrie for the murder of an English tourist named Rose at Great Fell mountain in Anrm Island will not be carried out at present, a reprieve having been granted. Brussels, September 28.
M. Cowillian, proprietor of the cartridge fictory at Antwerp at which an explosion occurred on September 6, by which 200 persons were killed and burned, has been sentenced to four' years imprisonment for negligence.
In consequence of foreigners being engaged in working British ships at Bristol several thousand dock labourers have gone out on strike.
Beef has declined a farthing per il>., tallow, market, best mutton, 2Gs 6d, and best beef 255.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2713, 30 November 1889, Page 2
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170CABLE SUMMARY. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2713, 30 November 1889, Page 2
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