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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2911, 12 March 1891, Page 3

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(BY BLECTMU TKLEORAI'H.—COPTBIOHT.) London/, March 9. TKK trade returns show tout the imports for tho past month have increased £0,1293 00(1. and the exports diminished' £614,000, as coaipnred with the corresponding period of l>soo. The citi/.ons of London invite the Emperor of Germany to bo their guest during his stay in Englnnd. Mr Parnell is' advising the Irish working classes to joiu with the English working classes in seeking to obtain an alteration of the laws and thus remove tho oppression which exists in many industries. Tho Manchester City Council recommends an advance of two anrl a half millions to complete the ship canal. Lord Knutsford has declined _ to ratify the Newfoundland convention, and the Colonial Assembly has again urged biin to comrlete it. b March 11. Letters arc being published by Mr W. H. Smith and Mr E. Cobb, M.P. for Rugby, respecting Mr Justice Stephens' fitness to retain his seat on the Bench. Mr (smith declares that ho is nob in possession of sufficient evidence to justify him taking action in the matter. Sir Charles Dilke says that if the Liberal party is unanimous in its wish that he should stand for the Forest of Dean seat he will do so. Pan is, March 0. A local paper says the Gorman Emperor is dissntificd with Prince Bismarck's return to political life, and it is unlikely that the latter will accept the nomination to the Reichstag. Intelligence has been received here Hint the French expedition up the Niger Rirer carried the fortified position at Dieim, near the source of the river. Six hundred natives wore killed, while the loss on the French side was only eleven. Washington, March 9. Tho United States Government is exercising increased stringency with regard to the influx of Chinese from Vancouver.