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South Canterbury Times, Issue 5007, 15 May 1889, Page 3

Very Latest

TOWN EDITION.

THIS DAY.

rPBIIKLEOTEIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.] (Per Press Association.) (Received noon, May 15th.) OBITUARY. London, May 14. Irving Bishop, thought-reader, from hysteric catalepsy. SHIP ARRIVED. Arrived—barque Langatone, from Napier, January 31st. THE PAPER SYNDICATE. It is understood that tho paper syndicate will increase the prices by five per cent.

A PACIFIC QUESTION. Replying to a question in tho House of Commons, Sir James Ferguson said no report had been recoivedjby the Government as to an alleged persecution o f protestant natives of Mare Island, one of the Loyalty group. PARLIAMENTARY. The Naval Defences Bill has passed the committee stage in tho House of Commons. The Inland Revenue Bill has been read a second time. CIVILISING PERSIA. Baron Reuter has obtained fresh concesions from the Shah of Persia which will enable him to establish an Imperial Bank aud work shale mines in that country. LEPROSY AT HAWAII. Washington, April 13. It is suggested that a conference of experts in the treatment in leprosy should be held in one of tho European capitals. It is also proposed that a memorial fund should be raised in honor of the late Father Damien, who recently died at the leper station near Honolulu. WHO WOULD BE A CZAR? St. Petersburg; May 13. Another plot against tho life of the Czar was discovered on the occasion of Count Tolstoi’s funeral, which the Czar attended. Many arrests were made, chiefly of military men. A number of bombs were found in a house adjacent to the route of the cortogo. A hundred detectives mingled with the populace and thus managed to avert the plot.