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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 3367, 15 February 1879, Page 2

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♦ Per Australia, at Auckland. LONDON. Jan 21. j The steamship Australia was detained at San Francisco 36 hours, owing to the non-arrival of the English mails. pertain emigrants to Australia are given £14 each by the North Wales Minors' Association and North Waleß State Union, they being members of the3e societies. Sir William Hoyter has been drowned. The Marquis" of Tweeddale is dead. The Town Council of Cork refund to receive General Grant owing to his antiCatholic sentiments. In Dublin he was presented with the freedom of the city, and magnificently feted in Belfast and the north generally. There have been heavy floods in England and Scotland. The Thames was filled with floating ice, and traffic in parts was suspended, . The Princess Caroline of Hesse is dead. « * ■ Lord Beaconsfield has fully recovered. The troops of the Peshwar and Khuraw columns. Afghanistan, have settled down for winter. The health of the troops is good. Stewart's command had camped on Ghnznee road after marching throngh Candahar. Biamark is preparing a Bill authorising ihe opening of all letters on the frontier. The German Government intend to send a naval force to Samoa to demand their alleged rights. Russia is intriguing to prolong the time of occupation. A heavy run on the London and County Bank was caused by a mob assembling in front of tbeir bunding to listen to a dispute between a cabman and hi« fare. Th 9 reserves of the bank were not affected, Twenty persons were recently killed by a collision on the Warsaw railway. Two thousand and forty-five Commu« mats ha»e been pardoned by MacMahon. M. Convas and Co,. London merchants, have failed for £80,000. Dean Stanley annnunoes his intention ' to return .t*» A i.^ictv, -. - „? Th« Oldkam c«ttot #trik« it orwr. V

h -^ , • -= (he American steamer Bul^ar totally wrecked on the WeUh coa the Lonisiatia at the nic-uth of the L:>rne. ; The distress in England is inn €500 persons are daily relieved \\ cheater alone. Sir Janiea Stephen is xppointed of the High Court of Justice, ? Anthony Cleasley, resigned. Mr Gladstone propf>ses to cont Midlothian elections. 5000 Knglisli emigrants sailed 1 """Tn? Lhcford boating Club df row -thei rAmerioan Harvard Club.^^ - ■-•' "" ■"■'-' The Dnke^ E^i^b^r^jß to ; pointed Admiral of the North A station, and Viceroy of Ireland. The Birmingham Library and ! institute has been burned j 80.000 were (lcstroyett inohidiiiK the stinkespenan collection in the i 8000 volumes ' i Ward, a London artist, has co suicide. ■■•-•■