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Waikato Times, 1 July 1890, Page 2

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(BY KLKCTRtC TRLEGKAPK. —COPY NIGHT.) Loniion, June 28. Owing to the authorities fearing a strike of. the police force tho Foot Guards are practising street patrol. Sir E. Bradford, Commissioner of Pclice, has forbidden meetings of policemen to agitato for improvement in wages and hours. Lord Hartington is supporting Mr Wainwright, Unionist candi- . date, against Mr W. >S. C'aino for Barrow, and the Eighty Club have put forward Mr Duncan, a Radical The official inquiry into the circumstances connected with the loss of the British India Company's steamer Dacca in tho J'ed Sea in May last, is being held. In the opening address counsel laid charges g_of great negligence on the part of The chief officer asserts that ho called tho captain twice, once after sighting the Daedalus reef (the reef on which the vessel was wrecked), and as the captain remained below he altered the vessel's course. The captain states lie dimly remembers being ealled once, nnd he was awoke by the vessel striking. Lord R. Churchill's friends are supporting a movement to seeure his re-entry into the Cabinet. A drastic liaeasure, entitled the Directors Liability Bill, has passed the third reading in the Houso of Commons. It affcots directors and promoters, and applies to companies launched after October next. The Colonial Quarterly Review, which is projected by Sir M. S. Irant Duff, Earl Derby, Sir John Lubbock, and Mr J. A. Froude, will oppose Imperial Federation, and advocate an allianco between kinsfolk in preference to more ambitious schemes of empire. Replying to a question to-day, Sir Jauies Fergusson stated that the fcrrns of itit;' EitJt African agreement do not commit England to fresh obligations in tho event of war. It is expected that France will assent without ditliculty to the African arrangement. Obituary: Earl of Carnarvon, aged 50.