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[Press Aoency] . London, April 16. The war feeling at St Petersburg is intense. The Czar is goin rto K cbnier. The rumor about Persia claiming Bagdad is denied. During the debate in the House of Lords on the protocol, Earl Granvilie criticised the action- of-the- Government. Lord Derby vindicate! its notion as being the best the step the Government could take under the present circumstances, to soft nothing of the future. Tuesday 17th. The stock market is still unsettled, though consols are slightlyreoovWed - . The extreme last week in Russia stuck was 15 per cent. Wheat further advanced. Sydney, Wednesday. News via Torres Straits from China reports that thousands are suffering through the famine. The severest privations are at Kiangsee. Bice has risent to famine prices. The distress is daily becoming greater, the relief being lamentably insnfificieut. The people are reduced te the last stage of emaciation and exhaustion, and are dying by t ousands da y. The Satszuma rebellion at Japan is more serious than at first anticipated, but the rebels are dispirited by defeat. Two thousand Chinese troops being dissatisfied, broke lose and left the camp, but were followed and a large number killed. Thursday. The steamer Bowen arrived yeeterday at Cooktown, with over five hundred Chinese’ The s*sumer Gilly Lome, now in quarintine, has jver a thousand Coinese on board. Pro* visions are running short.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume 7, Issue 666, 21 April 1877, Page 2
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