HOME AND FOREIGN.
Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. United Press Association. London, Aug 22. Notice of appeal lias been gi~en against the judgment of Mr Justice North upholding tho action of the directors of tho Bank of Australasia in granting a pension of £ISOO a-year for live years to tho family of Mr Parkes, the Melbourne manager of the Bank, who was killed in the Windsor railway accidont. Admiral Baird, who was in command of the defending fleet in the recent naval manoeuvres has ‘re- I ported that tho main object of his tactics, namely to defend the mouth I • of the Thames and the city of London, was successfully fulli'led. Tho blockade of Berohaven was raised owing to the scarcity of torpedo boats. Tho Lev 0. H. Spurgeon is lying dangerously ill. Berlin, Aug 22. It is proposed that the expedition being organised for the purpose of relieving Emin Bey should take an easterly course, so as to open up commercial connection with tho interior of Africa. [ Ottawa, Aug 22 I
A severe storm has passed over the Dominion,causing-great destruc-
tion of property. Fourteen men were killed by lightning.
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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 314, 24 August 1888, Page 3
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188HOME AND FOREIGN. Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 314, 24 August 1888, Page 3
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