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Otago Witness, Issue 1645, 2 June 1883, Page 8

LATEST NEWS.

It has transpired that on the enthronement of the Archbishop of Canterbury the police of that town closely watched the movements of certain Irish Americans who were acting in a suspicious manner, and who became alarmed and quitted the town. It is believed one of these men was Wilson, who had a hearing eub>

sequently before the Bow street Police Court.

Members of Parliament and otheis congratulated on April 17th the Malagas .bnvoyu ou the success of their mission to the United States. The Envoys wpoke of the kindness they had received in the American cities. It is the intention of that Government to promote its agent in Madagascar to the rank of Consul. In the Hous9 of Commons on April 30th Mr M'Donnell, member for Dungarvan, accused Mr Clifford Lloyd, the special magistrate, of altering a deposition made on oath. He aßked whether the Government would enable him to get into office. Mr Trevelyan and Mr Gladstone both refused to answer the question. Mr M'Donnell laid on the ta ble evidence which he claimed would sustain his charge against Lloyd. The steamer Grappler was burnt oft Vancouver's Island, near Eschiiualt, British Columbia, on the 20th April. Sixty passengers, priucipally Chinamen, perished. The programme for rifle-shooting at the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association at Wimbledon includes two competitions which have been instituted as a compliment to the American National Guard. They are for military rifles, at 500 and 200 yards respectively. Thirty-two prizes will be offered in each competition, ranging from £10 to £1. The warehouse of Sir Edward Bates and the shipchandlery of Garrick, Bible, and Co., Liverpool, were destroyed by fire on the night of April 22nd. The loss is £250,000. The Marquis of Queensberry, brother of Lady Florence Dixie, in a letter to the London Telegraph on April 21st, appeals to the Eton gentlemen said to have been in the vicinity at the time of the alleged attempt on his sister, to come forward and make a full and direct statement.

When the Queen left for Osborne on April 17th, she was unable to walk owing to the trouble of her sprained knee, and had to be lifted into the carriage carefully.