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Waipawa Mail, Volume XX, Issue 3549, 16 January 1897, Page 2

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(Pbb Press association.—Copyright; (B! SUBMARINE 0ABL1.) LONDON, January 14 Tho city newspapers almost unitmously approve thi nomination of CM Justice Way, of South Australia, to ass on the Jadicial Committee of the Prii|j Council. H. M. sloop Torch relieves the Rio| dove on the Australian stations. Tf; Torch was built in 1894. She earnest; 25 pounders, four 3 pounders, and U machine guns. She has a displacement!: 960 tons, aud steams at the rate of 1 knots. Obituary—The Rev. W. B, Jooa Bishop of St David’s, Wales, aetat 75. ] The Bank of England reserve amount to £26,370,000, the proportion of rosen’ to liabilities being 50.40. Frozen meat is unchanged. Hemp is unaltered. The English wheat market is firm, tj there is little doing. The Continental ( firm. Tbe American has a downwid tendency. Californian No. 1 milling ft early shipment 36a c.i.f.; Russian oargot 32s 8d c.i.f. London quotations: Parct No. I hard Delotb, 365. Tbe Bradford wool market has a don ward tendency. Rabbits aro unsaleable, and are beioj offered in tho provinces at 7sd. TOKIO, January 14

Miss Jacobs has been arrested od oharge of tbe murder of Mr Carew i Yokohama. The prisoner denies havil ooufe6Bed to the crime. WASHINGTON, Jjnnaiy 14 It is understood that Senator Sierd becomes Secretary of State io the M'Kit ley Administration. CONSTANTINOPLE, January 14 The Sultan has consented to tbe ere tion of a joint European and Turki Commission to control the Turkii budgets aud expenditure. January 15 The Porte.has acceptod the Europe*! scheme for appointing Cretan gandard so as to secure the fairer treatment { Christians. CALCUTTA, January 14 A party of Danish officers when expl<* ing the Pamir plateau discovered a tril of pigmies devoted to sun worship. Tk oattle and other animals of these straof people are also of a diminutive character The bubonic plague has now reach! Poonah, in the Bombay district. PRETORIA, January 151 The Transvaal Executive has protni**! Mr Barney Barnato to assist in the mad of labor supply for the mines; take steps to augment the supply of wit* aud reduce the cost of dynamite ou Rand goldfields.

(Received 9 50 a.m.) LONDON, January 15. In tbe course of a speech tbe Duke of Devonshire stated that tbe Government intend to constitute local bodies for tbe oontrol of secondary education, with a central Council. The Mansion Houae relief fund now amounts to £60,000, towards wbiob India bas subscribed £IO,OOO CALCUTTA, January 15 Reports from Bombay show that the bubonic plague continues to rage with great virulence, and tbe popolatiou is half depleted by flight. Commerce is para lysed, and the Moslem cemeteries are overcrowded. A meeting of Europeans and tbe lead jog Natives of Calcutta arrived at reeolutions approving of tbe Government scheme for the relief of the famine in infested districts. Lord Elgin, the Viceroy of India, said the occaeion was without parallel, and appeals for help were being received from all directions. A national aid scheme was essential. (Received 9 45 am) LONDON, Janoary 15 A despatch from tbe Niger Coast Pro teotorate states that Captain Boisragon, Commandant of the Niger Coast Proteo torate, Mr Locb, and twenty native carriers have returned, having escaped the massacre of Colonel Phillips’ expedi tion. They were wounded aud wandered six days before they were saved. CONSTANTINOPLE, January 15 Marchall Fonad, a Pasha and prominent officer of the Tnrkieh army, bas declioed the offer of the position of Commander of Bagdad, a town in Asiatic Tnrksy. The L'.ndoo Times' correspondent says tho offer was an attempt on the part of tbe Saltan to exile tbe Pasba, aud it will have tbe effect of inflaming tbe discon tent in Turkey.