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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6374, 9 February 1892, Page 3

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[per pe„s associAiion.--cni'YßranT."] THE FIR 15 AT NEW YORK. d THE UNIONIST LEADERSHIP. * MR CHAMBERLAIN ELSCTED. i", LATE REV. C. H. SPURGEON. ; LATE DUKE OF CLARENCE. g WESTERN AUSTRALIAN LOAN. I " GENERAL BOOTH'S RETURN. LIBEL ACTION. ' (Received February 9, 2.50 p.m.) New York, February 8. ' One of tho most appalling features in the fire yesterday was the collapse of the interior of the hotel just as the occupants were arousfd It is feared that most of those mis-iug fell into the flames. [ London, February 8. Mr Chamberlain has been elected leader ' of the Uuionie'ts, in the place of Lord Hart-ioij-roo. The body of tbe late Key JO. H. Spurgeon was courted t>y a procession to the Victoria Tabernacle, where religious services have betfiin. Tiie World says tho Qunen has consented to the body of the Duke of Clarence and Avoncla'.e being interred at Sandriugham. The public applied for a large portion of the We.-tern iiuntralian loan. The general ooinion in the city is that the difficulty of obtaining full subscription ought to be a warning- to the other colonies The return of "General" Booth will be celebrated by two din_errs in London attended by five thousand of his followers, and by one in Biimicgham Mr Storey obtained a verdict for £50 in a libel action brought against the Sunderland Post, arising out of the .-tilksworth evictions. Wool is unchanged, but bidding is r-pirited.