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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 11388, 2 October 1891, Page 2

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* [By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.] j [Per Press Association.] (Received October 2, 1.30 a.m.) London, September 20. J \ Yielding to the pressure of his friends, j Mr Childers has decided not to apply for the Chiltern Hundreds, and will retain . his seat until the general election, bnfc will not offer himself for re-election. Wheat has advanced 61 per quarter. Pretoria, September 30. The Boers are highly indignant at the comments made on them and the Trans* vaal in Lord Eandolph Churchill's letters to the Daily Graphic, and he was burnt in effigy in Pretoria this evening. San Francisco, September 30. The report of a murder which took place in 1877 has been made, and has caused considerable excitement. An American citizen has confessed that he* and six others in that year mentioned niurdered 24 Chinese miners at Snake Island, Wallawalla, in Washington State, and stole 60,000 dollars worth of gold dust. Paris, September 80. The Chinese Minister in Paris has informed M. Bibut, Minister of Foreign ■*" Affairs, that the Governor of Wuhu, wheie the missions were attacked, has been dismissed in accordance with the demands of the Great Powers. ' Sydney, October 1. A train became derailed near Newcastle and capsized. The fireman, Cockroft^. who came from Invercargill was killed. Hobabt, October 1. The E.M.S. Kaikoara arrived from London via the Cape, at .midnight, and sailed again for Wellington at this afternoon. Sht has sixty passengers for Australian poets, and 93 for New Zealand.