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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2741, 6 February 1890, Page 2

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(by kleotuic tkleokaph.— oopvurairr.) London, Februavy 3. Mr Parnell has been advised that ihe American National League will postpone the meeting of the. Convention, pending the British elections in case of a, dissolution. A! press, alias Annitage, who escaped after robbing the Commercial Bank at Melbourne, lias been arrested in England and remanded. By an explosion of gas in a colliery at Welkesbarre, Pennsylvania, two miners were killed outright and many others injured. Tlir Canadian League has passed resolutions declining to be taxed for Imperial purposes, unless Canadian producers are favoured in markets. They approve of the establishment of an Imperial penny post. Sir H. James will lead the Unionists in the absence of Lord Hartington in Egypt. The carmen and dockers decline to work with non-Unionists after February 10. It is stated that the British delegates at the Anti-slavery Conference proposed as an alternative the right to search ships, and each Power should use strict surveillance to prevent the importation of arms for the slave hunters in Africa. St. Petersburg, February 3. Russia is establishing a naval station on the Baltic Sea, near Libau. at a cost of thirteen million roubles.