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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 24, 28 February 1884, Page 4

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! Special to "Star" BEUTKEB TELBGKAMB. Received February 28, 1 p.m. Hong Kong, F-hrunry 27. Latest intelligence to hand fr>ra Ton- • i quin announces that the French ron . r, manderhas massed his troops, and that I an immediate advance will be made upon y Bucuiuh. Brisbane, This Day. In the Legislative Assembly last night " a resolution was passed requiring that the . Courier, a newspaper published here, be I- prosecuted for libelling the members of the House in an article commenting m the proceedings of tiie Elections Qutilifi- ' cations Committee. Adelaide, This Oar. I In tbe House of Assembly last night a debate .commenced on. the motion for an a dress to the federal council: In the course of the.diseijssion, the Opposi- • tion members left the House in a body, ■ and there being consequently no quorum, matters are sheired. The prorogation of Parliament is fixed for to-day, and the ' fate of the' motion is therefore uncertain. (PEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, This Dny. A meeting of the Executive was held on the range this morning, when the money collected at Auckland was added , to the prize list. The total sum for div» tribufcion is about L 650. The Nelson match, 300 and 500 yards, open to ail members, and the first match counting for the championships commenced at 11 this morning, and will not finish until late this afternoon. Lnter. The 300 yards range, in the Nelson match, is just finished. The following are the highest scores: — Johnston, and Paynter, of v elson, each 27; Churton, of Wacganui, Willis, of Wairoa. and Amode, of Wanganui, each 26; Turne', of Wellington, 25 ; Wells, of Taranaki, Pennington, of Wangnnui, Harding, of Blenheim, Thomas, of Thames, eacli 24. - Chbistohuhch, This Day. .The New Zealand Shipping Company received the following cable : — London February 28. British King arrived all well at Plymouth.