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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3175, 29 October 1892, Page 2

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j (by electric telegraph.—copyright.) I Loxdox, October 27. It is reported that the Prince of Wales and Ihe Duke of York will visit the Chicago Exhibition during the summer. The correspondence which passed between the London Missionary Society and Sir Samuel Griffith with reference to the . employment of Kanaka labour in Queensland has been published. The Daily News, commenting on the matter, says it will cost more than the colony can afford to provide adequate protection to Kanakas. Lord Salisbury, in an article in the National Review on the constitutional revision question, ridicules the idea of force being applied to the House of Lords, which he says, always bows to the real declaration of the ration. Sir J. C. Abbott, of Canada, has partly recovered from his recent attack of paralysis. In the course of an in ■ torview with a representative of one of the city papers, he denied that the movement for the annexation of Canada by the United States was of any importance, and said the only pels sons connected with it were a few dis • contents. Mr J. J. O'Kelly, and other Irish ■ men mentioned in Major Le Ctiron's book, intend to take proceedings against the author for libel. The Loudon Council has for some time had before it a scheme for cutting a great street from liolborn to the Strand, to be known as Council Broadway. The cost is estimated at two and a- quarter millions. The Council has finally decided to construct the street, but the betterment principal, by which ground landlords will have to contribute, is to be applied. In his evidence before the Labour Commissioner the Registrar of Friendly Society, stated that the total investment of the working classes amounted to 2IS millions. St. Petersburg, October 26. Russia demands a free passage through the Dardanelles for war material from ports iu the Black Sea. Russia is increasing her army by four regiments. Washington, October 2G. A hundred arid-fifty masked men captured Dallon, in Georgia, and as a protest against the domination of negroes flogged and expelled many, and threatened them with death if they returned. The police were imprisoned to prevent them interfering- j ing.