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Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2870, 4 December 1890, Page 3

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(UY ELKOTHIO TKM'.IiIIAPII.— COPYRIGHT.) London" , December 2. Tub dockers havo unanimously carried a resolution in favour of Imperial federation. It is perils tcutly rumoured that the Government will issue five million £l-notes, probably on a silver basis. O'Dnnoviin L'ossn busliled a petition iu bankruptcy. Mr Ilolmns, latu tiuumger of the Bank of Madras at Colombo, has been appointed General Manager of the Bank of New Zealand throughout the colonies. A portion of a shipment of butter from Sydney has been sold at 112s to 1.1 os per owt. Philip Ormiston, a Scotch expert, •who visited the iron mines iu New South Wales reports favourably upon thum, but states that one difficulty to contest with is thn uncertainty of the labour supply. Mr Smith Barry, M.P., who had the tenants evicted from his estate at Tippevary, has bought the site iu -Vow Tipperarv, which township was formed by those evicted. Owing to the thick tog the wool soles had to be postponed to-day. Washington, December 2. It is asserted that Dixon's American lymph is identical with Dr. Koch's. Hoxcu'oxii, December 2. A tumult has taken place at Tientsin near l'ckin, and tho lives of Europeans are menaced.