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FIGHTING IN NIGERIA.
|| Successes of on. Expedition. , % (Received Dicemler 80,10,10 a.m.) . |^v'; '■■■''■ / V : -London, December 80. m':-\ Further British sticcossos nro ropftilod ' v In tho Nigoriaffiiitorlandoxpcdition, tho vAcos natives having lost twenty in Jufu. ; '-:< 'A dreaded objcct.of Fetish worship has ; ken discovered, •:

FRANCE AND ENGLAND.
Possible Complications in the £. Congo. (Recekid December 31, 9.5 a.m.) -;■' London, December 80. Forty French possessors of concessions .awarded ,by M. Waldeck-liousseau, Minister, of Foreign Affairs, havo arrived H : at Frohoh Congo, virtually oxpolling tho English niorchants. Tho British press insists that granting trado monopolies is nn Infringement of tho Berlin Act of 1885. Tho Frouch press reply that tho con cessions cover agricultural, not trado, monopolies. Tho Paris nowspapor, Tovps, depre cates tho quarrel over tho rubber trade, and advises a settlement of tho matter . •.without arbitration,

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY IN TARANAKI.
Double Murder and Suicide, Two Well-known Settlers Shot Dead. (By Association), p.. Hawkua, Tiiis Day. ) Word lias just bcon received of a torriblo tragedy at Otakoho. Two well j«vn settlers, Mr W. A. Dlennorhassett, Tm,, and his son, aro reported to havo boon shot dead by a settlor, named Win, Hill, who aftorwards committed suicide, No further particulars aro at present available

SPORTING.
