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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 11281, 30 May 1891, Page 2

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HOME AND JTOREIGKN [By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.] [Per Press Association.! London, May 27. There were 379 deaths from influenza in the city of London last week. The Duke of Fife has decided to christen his infant daughter Alexandria. In the House of Lords to ; day a Bill to enable persons charged with crime to give evidence, also to enable wives to give evidence on behalf of their husbands, passed its second reading. Paris, May 27. The Bordeaux Bank has failed, with liabilities amounting to six million francs. Captain Trippone, who was arrested on a charge of disclosing the secrets of the War Office,..has been released j- but Mr Turpin, accused of selling the secret of his invention (melinite) to Sir W. Armstrong and Co., has been detained. By the explosion of a petroleum tank at Dunkirk seven houses were wrecked and six persona killed. OnAWA, May 27. By a fire at Montreal damage to the amount of 300,000 dollars was done. '■■' ' St. Johns, May £8. After passing the Bill agreeing to the modus vivendi until the end of the year, the Newfoundland Parliament, at the request' of the English Liberal leaders, passed another extending its operation till 1893. The French Admiral has prohibited British residents in St. George's Bay selling bait to the American vessels.