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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2963, 11 July 1891, Page 2

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(UY KLKCTKIO TULKGIIAI'II.— COPYRIGHT.) Loxnos', July 8. Tn the House, of Commons to day the Free Education Bill was read a third time and passed. The steamers Dunholmu and Kinloch collided in the English Channel, and in the confusion a mimbcr of the crew jumped overboard. Seventeen arc reported mifsing. Russia has withdrawn a million of gold from Knglatid. Hyndmm, the Socialist, leader, was arrested for unking a speech in which ha urged liis hearers to use force to obtain their rights Thin season's yield of hops iu Kent ami Sussex is of excellent quality It is now stated that Mr (ila-lstoue'H eledest son. who expired after undergoing an operation for the removed of a tumour, died fro n the effects of chloroform. Sixty thousand Salvationists will assemble at the Cry tal Palace to celebrate the twenty-Bixt.il anniversary of the organisation of the Salvation Army. In the libel action brought against the Freeman's Journal by Mr T Healy, M.P., the jury were unable to agree on a ver iiet and were discharged.

The P. and 0. Company's stevedores' strike ia ended, and work is resumed as usual.

Pakis, July 8. Owing to the tariff advancing t,he prion of meat,M. do Freycmei,Minister of War, made a statement in the Chamber of Depute s t'.» lay, demanding an additional .">,000,000 fiances to provide for French meat contracts.

Professor Lannelongc, of the Academy of Mcdioine of Paris, annoitncts auotlier cure for tuberculosis by means of the injection of chloride of zinc, which produces a fibrous transformation of the healthy surrotimlins: tissue. During the process the bacilli wailed in by the sclerous tissue, but at the stage to which the experiments have advanced the doetur is unable to say whether they are starved out or merely rendered dormant. St. Peteksuuru, July 7. The young King of Servia will meet his mother at Odessa on July '29th. The Czar will receive him in state at Peterhoff on August Bth. July, 9. Owing to the failure of the grain crop, there is a prospect of a fearful famine being experienced in twenty Russian provinces.