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Waipawa Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 2716, 2 February 1892, Page 3

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RESS Association.— Copyright.) B (by submarine cable.) B (Received —.— a.m.) LONDON, February 1. of Canterbury has to be offered up for the influenza. engineers have gone effect thirty thousand.

The German Lloyd’s steamer Eider has gone ashore on the Isle of Wight during a fog. Mr Spurgeon died of Bright’s disease. He never recognised any one after Saturday night. The family desire that the remains should be buried at Menton, but will consent to a public funeral in London if the Deacons of the Church desire. The Press, in their comments on Mr Spurgeon’s death, recognised that he had taken broader views latterly, especially towards the Church of England. Sir C. Hall, Q.C., M.P. for Chesterton, has been appointed Recorder for London. (Received 10.30 a.m.) PARIS, February 1 Prices of food are rising in Paris in consequence of the new tariff coming into operation to day. Several Parisian papers are asking how contracts can be Bafely made in view of the precarious character of tariff, and accuse the Protectionists of plunging France into a dangerous venture. ST. PETERSBURG, February 1 The Czar proposes to rebind the peasantry to the soil as they in former days, and compel them to cultivate it, the State retaining two-thirds of the produce, abd one-third being stored in the magazines of each Commuae for the support of the peasants. A memorial issued by Lemstos predicts that, unless the Government changes its attitude, Russia will become bankrupt, or will be dismembered by a popular rising which will deluge the country with the blood of its inhabitants. VENICE, February 1 The Sanitary Conference has finished its sittings. An efficient hospital is to be provided on the Suez Canal, and no ship is to be detained longer than five days. Special rules have been |made applicable to mail steamers upon their giving satisfactory guarantees. The English delegates have not signed the Convention, reserving the question of the method of dealing with troopships. ATHENS, February 1 There are 500 tons of water in H.M.S. Victoria, but the leaks have been stopped and guns removed, and it is hoped she will be afloat shortly.