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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2882, 3 January 1891, Page 2

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(BY KI.KCTUIO TKLKGKAI'H. —COI'YItIUHT.) Loxnox, Decemlier HI. Till', statement, that sliots had been lii'edinto the Bishop of Ivillaloe's house is denied. Letters appear daily in the' newspapers from Nonconformist laymen intimating their dissent, from Mi Gladstone's policy for disestablishing the Churches of Scotland and 'Wales. Mr Gladstone unveiled a. fountain at. Ha.warden in commemoration of liis eight,v-tirst birthday. He received an enormous number of congratulations on the occasion. General Booth denies Frank Smith's statement that the socinl and religious funds of the Salvation Army were mixed. Mr Reginald Brett, in a letter to t.lie Times, admits that, that, paper liabeen light throughout on the main issues of I ri.-h controversy. The reported intention of the \\ lute Star and Cuiiard lines. to plm • steamers on the line bet ween Live]']ion) and Aniridia, is denied. January I. The Admiralty will still continue to survey in Western Australian waters next, season, but after that no vessel will be available for this purpose. General Booth has i een promised jCiXIOUO for his colonisation scheme. Consols are firm at fO;,'. New Zealand 4 per cent, inscribed stock is steady at 100 ; I). 1 , ditto is quiet at !M. IiEKUX. December dO. Two patients treated for lupus by rite Koch process have been discharged from a Bologna hospital cured, but, at St. Petersburg two deaths have occurred. \i:w Voi;k, December 'I'm,- railways of \ew Kiigboid are MioTr-bound. A'-ule disliv-'i is experienced bv (he residents on tlie Oklahoma reserve land.-, m-ar Kansas. Arkansas, and Texas. Thirty thousand people are said 1o lie suffering from waul of food and clothing.