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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3159, 22 September 1892, Page 3

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(!1Y EI.KCTKIC TKI.KiiKAPH.— COI"Hr<;YI[T). Loxi'ON, September 20. Thk Chamber of Cmihiikw is discussine the reform of hnil lin- societies. It is proposed Unit u uniform system of keeping accounts, (jnvprnincnt inspection, iind regulation of advances .should he insisti'd on. The London Commercial Deposit Hiiilrling .Society, of l-», Lamb's Con-duit-street, W.C.. has suspended payment. The deposits arc under £40,000. The assets uru expected to pay 16s in the £. Fifteen thousand shipwrights on " ie Clyde are out of work. Mr 11. TI. Champion declares Ue is able to provide the election expenses for a hundred labour eanduktos. September 'I'l. '■ Andrew Macrae, a grocer's assistant, lias been committed for trial for the murder and mutilation of Ann Pritchard, at Althorpe. The new cubic rates will not begin before NoTcniber. Pαhis, September If). French troops have occupied ham, Dahomey, and the villages en route have submitted. The Horns are harassing French trade in Madagascar, and business has 1»oen completely stopped. Zanzihah, September 19. Emin Pasha is scoking refuge with an Arab chief near the Albert Edward and Nyanza Lakes, his resources having been exhausted. September 20. The agent of the Congo Compnny has arrived at Wadelai with an expedition 5000 strong. IJeut-in, September 20. The Post states that the German army is to bo increased by a hundred thousand men. Ten Russian suspects have been oxpelled from Berlin. The German press resent the action of the British in establishing a protectorate over the Gilbert Group, but the official press reply that the islands are outside the German zone. During the manoeuvres of a small portion of the army at Auklan, in Pomerania, the Emperor was thrown frotL his horse and rolled upon, He escaped with a severe shaking. It is reported that the rebellion among tribes on the Upper Congo is spreading to German territory. Brussels, September 19. A Belgian survivor of the Nyangwe massacre in Upper Congo, reports that out of eighteen agents nine were killed. St. Petehshuro, September 19. Prince Anton Hadziwill.when about to join thu Czar's hunting party, suddenly became insane and ran-a-muck in his hotel. He shot two servants before the police, hesitating to interfere in the case of so exalted a personage, succeeded in stuning him with the nozzle of a fire hose. Calcutta, September 19. The Ameer, who has Ordered his agents to evacuate Wona and Waz iristan, generally pleads that his trouble with the Hazaras prevents his fixing the precise date to receive Lord Itoberts. New Yoi:k, September 20. Bui'gmann who attempted to murder Frick. the manager of Carnegies works tit Homestead, during the lute strike has been sentenced to twentytwo years' imprisonment.