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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2945, 30 May 1891, Page 3

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(PY Kl.K' 'TIIIC TKI.KfiIIA I'll. — f:i irVKIUHT.) LuNI'ON, May 27. Tkk unde' writers are msming th.c assets in the Barings estate at l.i per cent, Au inpinetion it sought to restrain Mi J. R. Kelly, treasurer of the SeottMi branch of the National League, paying over to Mr Justin McCarthy money raised for evicted tenants in Ireland. Lieutenant < ir.mt, of the 2nd battalion of the tth Gooikhas, wdio distinguished himself .lining the revolt in Manipur, has been promoted to the rank of Major, and Her Majesty the 0 leen has also conferred the Victoria Cross on him. Ml' Parnell intends to visit America when the House of Commons has been prorogued. He has arranged to marry Mrs O'Slr'a in a month or six weeks. The Royal Commission on labour opened its sittings to day, and have arranged the details of proceeilure. Earl Derby has been appointed chairman of the transport section, Mr Mundella, M. P., of the textile section, and MiDavid Dale, ironmaster, of the iron and loal section. In the House of Lords to-day a Bill to enable persons charged with crime to give evidence, also to enable wives to give evidence on behalf of their husbands, passed its sec md reading. There were 370 deaths from influenza in the city of London last week. Washington*, May 27. Fox, of the To!ice Gazette, New York, offers to orgrnise a regatta in connection with the Chicago World's I'air if Australian and iviL'lisa oatsir.i-n will compete for the championship pur?, s. Ottawa, May 27. By a lire at Montreal damage to the amount of MO,OOO dollars was done. St. Pt.TEnxr.uKi;, May 27. The Russian Govcininent has refused the oiler of foreign bankers to issue a loan witiioat the Ro.lischilds participating in I'.uus, May 28. Tho Chamber of Deputies has agreed to a B'll ca po'.v rni.: the. Minister ot War to secure two moid lis' stock of wheat and (lour for civilians within fortified towns. Captain Tripone, who was arrested on a charge of disclosing the s-ecrets of the War Olliee, has been released ; bat M. •Turpin, accused of selling the secret of his invention of melinite to Sir \\ . Arm strong and Co., has been detained. The Bordeaux I'.arik has failed, with liabilities amounting to six million francs. Through the intervention of M. Constaus, Minister ol tile Interior, the Omnibus Company has cm -:ded the demand of the t mnloves fo. - 12 liouis per day, and the strike n.i J (aided. A mob attacked a nuinb'a' of omnibuses which Were. b!icki i_' the streets ill the city, and in dtre ited the diivers. By the explosion of a pair leuni tank at Dunkirk seven bouses were wrecked and six persons killed.