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(BY KLKOriIIC TIiLKGII.U'K-COl'ntlGllT). London, May l(i, The prospectus of the British and Colonial Agricultural Institute Com pauy, with a capital of £IOO,OOO, ha been issued. The company is being formed for the purpose of establishing a training college. The new Australian bills of lading will be brought into operation on Jir e Ist.
A Parliamentary Select Committee recommends that the sale of cereals in Great Britain should be by weight, 112 imperial pounds. The Queen has approve 1 of the decoration of Colonial Volunteer officers. Three additional failmeson the Exchange are roportcd, ono of a serious character. New Yohk. May 16. The New York Herald has been converted into a limited liability company with a capital of 2,000,000d015. Tlie Suproilie .Court has decided (one Judge dissenting) that the Chinese Exclusion Act is legal in the enforcement of the deporting of unregistered Chinamen, !:;
A sad colliery accident is reported from Michigan. While a cage containing ten miners was asceiidiug, the engineer overwound the cable, and the cage fell a thousand feet, the occupants being terribly mangled, Paris, May 15.
During a State dinner iu tho city a chandelier crashed in on one of the tables, inflicting a severe gash on tho head of M. Challemel-Lacour, the President of the Senate. The injured man is progressing favourably.
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Waikato Times, Volume XL, Issue 3259, 18 May 1893, Page 2
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217CABLE SUMMARY. Waikato Times, Volume XL, Issue 3259, 18 May 1893, Page 2
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