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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7178, 1 June 1891, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

• [Special to Press Association.] THE CANADIAN PREMIER. OTTAWA, Mat 30. Sir John Macdonald, the Premier, is paralysed. It ia believed that Sit J. S. D. Thompson, the Minister for Justice, will reconstruct the Cabinet. WASHINGTON, Mat SO. THE LATE P. T. BARNUM. An unsuccessful attempt has been made to steal the body of the late P. T. Barnum, who died on April 7. BIRTHDAY HONOURS. LONDON, May 30. Among the birthday honours, Judge Windeyer and the Hon Julian E. Salamons, Q.C., of New South Wales, have been knighted ; and the Hon John Forrest, Premier of Western Australia, has been created a K.C.M.G. The gallant seamanship of Captain Sane, of H.M.S. Calliope, during the severe hurricane at Apia in March, 1889, has been recognised by Her Majesty, and he has been created a Companion of the Bath. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. The Archbishop of Canterbury is suffering from influenza. THE MILITARY TOURNAMENT. The team of Victorian mounted riflemen has scored further successes it the Royal Military Tournament. " OBITUARY. The Earl of Clancarty, setat fifty3even. His son, William Frederick (Viscount Dunlo), who married Belle Bilton, a burlesque actress, succeeds to the title. [Richard Somerset (Le Foer Trench) was bhe fourth Earl of Clancarty, and sat in the Souse of Peers as Viscount Clancarty. He (vaa born in 1834, and succeeded to the title in 1872. He was Honorary Colonel of bhe Fourth Battalion Connaught Bangers.] A SCHOLARSHIP. LONDON, Mat 30. Mr Gerald Baldwin has won the Pollock Scholarship for Physiology, it St George's Hospital. THE AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON. H.M. ships Ringarooma and Tauranga, two of the new cruisers for Australia, have left Malta for the Colonial station; and a third, the Katoomba, has arrived at Malta en route. PRESIDENT HARRISON. WASHINGTON, Mat 31. A son of President Harrison declares that his father will decline reflection to the Presidency.