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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2789, 29 May 1890, Page 3

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(BY ELECTKIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT.) IiONDON, May 2G. Spoiling writers here express great surprise at the result of the McLean v. Kemp match. A " Digger" writes to the Pall Mall Gazette that the richest part of Mount Morgan is exhausted; Tho employees of the Gaslight ami Coke Company have struck against the introduction of laboursaving machinery. Mr Dillon, speaking at Tipperary, said, the , Australians would feel ashamed of themselves if they submitted to a meeting being proclaimed iu the colonies. The soldiery were confined to their barracks. Mr > Dillon and Mr O'Brien were banqncted e ;ia the evening. The police at Tipperary had their rifles ready in case they met with resistance. Mr O'Brien advised the meeting to disperse, in order to avoid bloodshed. Mr Deasy, speaking at Cork, said instead *of detectives dogging their footsteps in Australia, they on the contrary had police placed at their disposal. The Judge has refused to allow Newton, the solicitor convicted of conspiracy, to be treated as a firstclass misdemeanant. It being .rumoured that Lord Salisbury wag ratifying the Bounties Convention without the consent of Parliament, in reply to a question, Mr W. K. Smith said the Convention would not be ; agreed to without the consent of Parliament. It is hoped that the reduction in the ocean postage rale will come into force on June 1. India has assented. . - Speaking in the House of Commons,'Mr Cecil Raikes, PostmasterGeneral, stated that the greater the correspondence to the colonies at the rate of 2jd, the greater would be the loss entailed. ISBBLIN, May 2C>. A Prussian plot has been discovered in this city. CoNaTANTiNOi'i-E, May 20. Tive Turkish officers, found guilty of seizing' and kissing a Russian dragoman's wife, have been tried by court-martial, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. The Sultan has also ordered them to be banished for life to Tripoli. Count Jtfelidoff, the Russian ambassador, has expressed himself as satisfied with the reparation for the insult. Washington, May 27. Francis Train has completed a journey round the world in 62£ days. The Republicans arc beginning to deprecate the free coinage of silver, and it is considered unlikely that Congress will legislato in the matter. May 27. Messrs Shaw, Saville and Go. believe that tho ship Marlborough, now overdue from Lyttelton, collided with an iceberg and foundered. The R.'M.S. Kaikoura arrived at Plymouth yesterday. Her passengers were all well, and the cargo of meat was in good condition.