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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 28, 25 June 1892, Page 7

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'London-, June 22.

Messrs J. Dillon and Justin McCarthy visited Mr Gladstone at the latter's request. • ■1t,, -is ./understood that Mr Gladstone's asurances respecting Home Rule were of a satisfactory nature. Paris, June 22. At a meeting of the Board of Directors ot the Dynamite Manufacturing Co., it was not noticed that two members of the Board were absent. An examination of the accounts disclosed ; the fact that five million frauce of. the Co.'s money were.missing. < Melb6uk^e> June 23. During a cyclone at Baiiarat, two men, named Preston and 'Billings, were killed by the falling debris. The tide.iv Hobson's .Bay. rose .two feet, and the shipping had an anxious fcirne, but fortunately no damage was .done. Paris, June 23. A clerk in the French War C ffice has!been arrested*oh a charge of selling ■official documents to the German authorities. / Capetown", June 23. A Boer "trek' has entered the Portugese territory of Angola, and has ■proclaimed a (republic. . London, June 23. A cargo of Adelaide wheat has been sold at 345, and Victorian at 31s 3d. Mr Dibbs, in bib address before the Empire Trade League, opposed Imperial Federation, preferring a Com. mercial Union on a preferential basis. Pabjs, June 23. ; Three men engaged in a waterdrinking contest at Argeateuil. Tb.6y succeeded in drinking 12, 9, and 7 quarts respectively, and all died shortly after. ■ . London, June 21. , Crosseand business has been formed into o a>. company >vitb a capital of ,£570,000. '" " Blake, a Canadian, will be a candidatrifor the South Longford seat. The betrothal of Priace George of Wales will be announced in August or September. ■ Washington, 3une 22. 'Cleveland ihas succeeded in gaining the ifinal nomination as Democratic : candidate for the Presidency. [

Londok, June 23. Sir W. V. -Harcoucfc stigmatises theavoidance of Saturday's election as a base manoeuvre of political warfare. It is announced that tenders for a Victorian 3| per cent. »loan of £2,000,000, with a minimum of 92, -will be opened on the 29fh insfc. Mr Dibbs is amazed at .the unexpected action of the Victorian Government, He considers that it will "'depreciate the credit, of «fche' colony to accept 92, and that it will injure the other colonies by compelling them to accept similar low figures. fHe points otftthat yhe lowness of the minimum will give ! a good handle to the enemies of Australia, by admitting that their securities are not of the best. Messrs G. Barker and Co., bankers, of 35 Mark Lane, London E.G., have , suspended payment. The liabilities sire set down at £65,000. Lord Rose berry has resigned the 'Chairmanship.of the .London County Council. AuckiiAkd, last night. . ■Influenza is very prevalent in Auckland at present. Lady Pox was buried at Burewa Cemetery to-day. ■. , \ More stormy weather oa the coast-is. prognosticated. The missing schooner Louie is to be <soaehed f®r by the Hinemo I*,. There is an almost certainty of a representative imatch being arranged betweon Thames and Taranaki at the .end of July.: (' - The ShortJand Gymnasium Club intend arranging ;a football match with Faeroa district at an early date. 'Mr Vernon Coney, cierk in the .Thames Post Office,- has been transferred to Tauranga. The Lands, Court ,4it Shertlaa&Uwill list out the month, A telegram from Wellington ito-flay says that the leading Oppositionists ridicule the likelihood of a dissolution, and ■ contend (that Government will easily weather the session. Keen interest is taken in the efforts being made by Parewai zo joia the Thames Borough. . J The Hawke's Bay Steeplechase today resulted:—Whalebone 1, Shillelagh 2, Otaire 3. ' Efforts are^being made in the House of Hepresentatives to have the vate of censure ou Mr Bryce removed.