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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2939, 16 May 1891, Page 2

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(RY KfJil'TltlC TKI.KIiIS.U'I!. —COl'VHlfllir.) London, May 11. Sib Gbaham Bekry and Sir Saul Samuel leave for Vienna on Friday, to attend the Postal Conference. Sir Charles Tuppi r and Sir IC. 0. N. Braddon will not ln-ive till the end of tin; month. Sir A, ]l!yih. Sir Dillon Bull, and Sit F, Garrick,"\vill not attend, Seventy members of the llo'isn (if Cnminons, including Lord Hartin;;ton and Mr Cliainbcrlain, have been attacked by influen/.a. The epidemic appears to be becoming milder. Truth states that tho Queei is advamv ing a sum running into six figures to redeem the mortgage on the Sandringham estates, besides which she has given the Prince many sums during the laat five and twenty years. The motion in the House of Commons for the expulsion of Captain Verney was adopted without debate, aud when the Speaker declared it carried there was profound silence. Captain Veruny has resigned his seat on the London County Council. The German Kmpcror proposed to bring a retinue of seventy with him on his visit to England in July, Lu , ; the Queen requested him to reduce the number. Mr J. H. Wilson, the secretary of the National Amalgamated Societies aud Firemen's Union, has been released after serving a sentence of six weels' imprisonment for inciting the Cardiff strikers to rint. He was accorded a public breakfast at Cardiff. May 14. The balance of apples per s.a. Mamari brought from 10s Ud to 14s (id

per case. Michael Davit has started for New Zealand via America. The modus vivendi, with I'ortugal, has been extended fur one month. Mrs Doiiken Birtimore has been found dead on the Bettroskywd Mountain, in Wales, with her head battered in. J IVr husband, who was arrested and charged with the murder, has confessed to the crime. Washington, May 1-f. The Italian Consul at New Orleans claims that he is preventing the liuliaiis from killing Mayor Lawyer Parlierpo-, who headed the inob and other leading lynchers. St. Petersbcrc;, May 13. Russia has decided not to withdraw bullion from London. The proposed Russian loan has beer, definitely abandoned, although the Rothschilds would have acted in a friendly manner in regard to the transaction, in view of the suspension of the decree cxpelliDgthc Jews from Russia. Ui'.LciiAijK, May I,'!. Owing to the desire of the Czar, Servia is adopting conciliatory m.usnres towards ex-Queen Natalie.