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■ ' • ' ' " London, January 1 5At a meeting of - the British Borneo Trading Company, it was deoided to open a timber trade with Australia. ,- The. Standard strongly ,prdtests agajnat protracting the sittings of the Times-Pa."' neil Commission, by inquiring into the circumstances of the various causes , of outrage and boycpljting inj.lrelaud, the evidence in; j^h'^h', from a.similarity of the oases ;ia bo-; oommg; : hft'okneyed . and. wearying., in; ; the, extreme! "That snoh outrages were oom-j mitted,- aays the 'Standard, is not debi.d by the Parnellities, but the Commisaion is' only conourued in .discovering the complicity of the Irish members iri' acts of outrage. »/. ;! ■!>;. An English -Frenoh syndicato has'/ao quired two hundred square 'miles of-auri-; feroua country in Dutch Borneo, Soveral .Auatrali^u mining capi talis ta are interested in.the, uud^rtjikiog,. , •'..-■ r ;'..,.-;.' '„' , San''Fba,«Oisoo, .January 15. Peter' Jackaon, the Australian pugilist,, has made a matoh with MoAulifie, of Sin Franoißoo,'- for '2000' ; dollars. 'The Aus-; stralian. ohampion has .v'sitj England,, with, the objeot- pf meeting Jem Smith.'.'. ''' ' .• ' „',. ..';'.'., Y)!i '. YYYYY-Y^ ABmN 9 T - 0;T ' J *?f«y A?.' i r . ,1 The .Senate has p .aaed . a, Bill ,which. .will .ehi*ble.l'the Panama Cinal'it'pmpqpy.tOi.goj Into'.lfquidatio'n,, if,;. 'neoessary,. .without bein£ forced into'llquidation. i j, ,;,. , ; Berlin, January 15. At the opening of the Reichstag to-day, the Emperor, William's speech was received; with great enthueiaami ' ; The Emperor re- ! ferred in confident terma to the fnture of; the country,, and said that the floprishipc' condi(non'df'n.dustirios, ; 't^gotherwitlf'th ] ej econ'omiOiPhandling of the .fih'ah'ols, would, enable the Government to propose' a re- : mission of taxation. - , . r '/•"From; papers r 'p.e__h'ted 'to.' ttiki-DW., , it appears that Germany's 'adhereriod thathe; >Sugar Bountie's.Cpnyehtioh ia ooii tinge-it 1 on 'fxclndingf 1 the ' i impprliati-ri''''pfj sugars from thosd com; tries 'Bob' par-Mpat-j ing in the Convention. j Romr, January 15. ! ;l gifts, valued, jatten thousand. (Sounds to many digni.t_,'j_os ( of the Roman Catholio Church in Ireland. : ;-'^'. Ip -As V* ' .- - B ?'*? 11 ?' January, 15./ 1 'A skirmish with 'the rebel, took plaoe' to-day, but'to-ilattpr. ware repulsed. There' were no casualties on .the Bide cf the; British, •' "'' i