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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 9178, 14 January 1892, Page 2

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(Reoelved January 18, 10.45 a,wA , : London, January 12. r The Times, in. its review of the paab year's soientifio work, refers to Professor Anderson Stuart's important researched in connection with the struoture of the eye, and expresses the opinion that his discoveries modify the existing theories. yIt considers that Professor' Stirling's M marsupial discovery is equally as interest* ' ing as tbe discoveries with respect to the ornithorbynotras. ■ ■■'•■;.. The Duke of Clarence's illness puma ■" a somewhat severe course. An" offloial : bulletin announces, that the* suffer* 1 * ./ strength is weU maintained, Iratf nls . '■:■( condition fi« not'finprored. ' , ';:- 81r Fraaols Knollyß, private McretMjr, . ."•- -':£ to the Pdnce of Walew, twoot thefWnw'^ .; X®

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tqnerries, and several other members ol his household are prostrated with influenza. The Dublin Corporation, by a tnreefourthe majority, has refused to pass a resolntion congratulating the Queen and the Prince of Wales on the approaching marriaga of the Duke of Clarence. Lord and Lady Brookes and many of tin aristocracy are suffering from l n ao»»M, and three hundred of the Grenadier Guards have teen USJ low by it. Newß from the Continent states that in the hospitals in Munich yesterday 112 persons died of influenza. Half tbe population of Dunkirk are suffering from the malady, which is decreasing in severity In Berlin and Vienna. The etock of coffins in Copenhagen Is exhausted. (Received January IS, It aon.) Count Leo Tolstoi writes in the Daily Telegraph that though tbe famine in Russia is severe, the people are strangely gay and healthy t and drunkenness is rife. Auckland Harbor Board debentures bare fallen 3 per cent. (Reoolved January IS, 120 p.m.) A bulletin issued this evening states that tbere is no marked change in the •condition of tbe Duke of Clarence, thongh lie is somewhat better. (Reoelvcd January H. 1 a-m.) * Jannary 13. Professor Sterling endorsed the paper •which was read by Professor Anderson Stuart, of Sonth Australia, at a meeting of the Colonial Institnte, and said he hoped to see a conjoint University examination for Australia. Professor Beare urged that a national series of scholarships should form an Important branch of pan-Britannio contests. Bir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, hoped that a close connection wonld be maintained between the colonial and English nniverslties. The Union Bank of Australia has •declared a dividend of 12 per cent per annum, and carried forward the sum of £18.000. The medical bulletins issued yesterday respecting tbe health of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale were of a disquieting nature, dne chiefly to his having passd a restless night. The New Zealand Gold Extraction Company will amalgamate with thq parent company. k Ninety-five deaths from influenza were reported in London last wcftk, compared with 37 the previous week. The death rate of those attacked ia 32 per 1000. It is reported that the pneumonia from ■which the Duke of Clarence and Avondale Is suffering is Increasing. Tbe publio display mnch anxiety owing to the weakly nature of bis constitution and the guarded character of tbe last medical bulletin. Another Walsall Anarchist has been arrested. ' Millions of New Sonth Wales and Victorian stock are awaiting realisation. A cable message stating that New Sonth Wales had decided to issue Treasury bills at 4 per cent at par has greatly depreciated and Injured tbe prospects of the issno, which U considered to be impossible of success at less tbsn 4} percent. Purchasers who had already arranged to take large amonnts at 4J per cent now refuse to touch the bills at 4 per cent, and any attempt to force a public loan would produce a panic Lord Charles Bere&ford retires from his oandidnture for Kensington.