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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2946, 2 June 1891, Page 3

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«- ~ (BV ELECTRIC TELKOHAriI-COPYIIIOHT.) London, May -'■) In the House of Commons, Mr \V. H. Smith, First Lord of the Treasury, an liotinced his intention of introducing a Bill suspending British sealers from carrying oat their calling in the .Behring .Sea . for the term of one year. The tenant* of Did Tipprrary who were evicted for not paying their rent, have accepted the term* of the landlords They have now paid the arrears of rent due, and have: returned to their houses. The election for the vacant seat ia the House of Commons for North Bucks, rendered in ee.-sary ty the expulsion of Captain Verney, resulted in the rutin n '•! a Home Kulcr. In the lloiuoof Commons to-day, Mr Smith, in leply to a question, si.id the Government wi.uld consider the necesMy of placing swmc restriction on lik iulliix of destitute foreigners into Great licii.-'ii;. May ISO. The team of Victorian mounted nil--men hive s-. cured further sneeu-.-cs at the Royal Military Tournament. 11.M. ship- Kingarooma ,vid T'liran-J. 1 , two of the new cruisers for Au.t.aha. have left Malta for their colonial station, and a third, the Katoomba, h.:s airivui! at Malta, en route. Fakis, May :!9. The French Minister of War has sent a grateful message of thanks to Lord (.'has. Beresford, commander of H.M.S. Undaunted, for the assistance rendered by him to the French warship .Siegnvloy when she stranded on a sandbank olf Jafla, on the Levant coast. Bisku.n, May 2S. Owing to the prospects of a bad harvest the Berlin Municipal Council ha.'o requested the Government to immediately suspend the duties on cereals, and have thetn abolished altogether at an early date, May 29. The hisrh corn duties in Northern Germany have had the eft'ect of forcing the price of wheat up to famine price. Rome, May 20. The Marquis dc Kudini, the Italian Premier, has informed both the German and Austrian Governments that it is the intention of Italy to renew the Triple Alliance. Ni'iw York, May MO. Experiments have been made with Edison's latent invention, the kiuetograph, combining the phonograph with photography, and the results obtained have been marvellous. Ottawa, May .'io. Sir J. Macdouald, the Premier, is paralysed. It is believed that Sir J. S, D. Thompson, Minister of Justice, will reconstruct the Cabinet.