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Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2869, 2 December 1890, Page 2

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(UV KLKCTHIC TKLKCiRAI'H.— COPVKIGHT.) LoifDOX, November 29. DuuiXG a gale seventy fishing smacks were wrecked oft' the coast of Norway and hundreds of persons drowned. Many of those who reached the shore died from starvation. Mr 11. M. Stanley will divulge, at a lecture on Tuesday next, the atrocities committed by the members of the rear* guard of his expedition. The informants in the Eituaiistic charges preferred against the Bishop of Lincoln have appealed against tho decision which was given a few days ago by the Archbishop of Canterbury in the defendant's favour. The General Medical Council has registered Professor Anderson Stuart's degree as Dostor of Medicine, thus recognising the diplomas of the Sydney Uuiversitv. November L>9. Mf Archer resigned the AgentGeneralship of Queensland in the belief that his Government was dissatisfied 'with his evidence before tho Emigration Committee of this House of Commons. The other Agents-General deeply regrot his action, Ottawa, November 2(1. The Canadian Government proposes to allow the admittance of raw material free for the purpose of being madu up and exported. Cai'ETOWX, November 2!). A rich belt of auriferous country has been proved on the Umpahi llivcr, in South Africa. Washington, November 29. The Indian scare is abating, owing to the strong bodies of troops and artillery which have been massed in the disturbed districts.