Special to "Star."
BEUTEB"B TKLBOKAMB. London, March 29. In the Houße of Lords to-day Earl Bosebury made a speech, in which he stated that deporting French convicts was causing unexampled excitement in the colonies. Earl Granville, Foreign Secretary, occurred in Lord Rosebury's statement, and announced that Lord Lyons. British Ambassador at Paris, had brought to the Botiee of the French Government the feeling, of the colonies, and had been assured that the bulk of the French convicts were rio'# being sent to Cayenne, in South America, and only a selected few to New Caledonia. The French steamer Villecaen, bound from Havre to Noumea, has been totally wrecked at Jubal. The crew were rescued. The price of frozen meat is improving - A company is being floated to be known as " The London Colonial Meat Company," with a capital oi £500,000. The object of the company is to supply its members with colonial frozen meat at a cheap rate. The general public will al«o be supplied, and the meat delivered from the company's establishment in carts specially constructed for the jpurpoNe. Admiral Hewitt, at present at Sounkim has issued a notice ordering the who!e of the slaves who ran away aiace the insurrection to return to their masters.
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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 38, 1 April 1884, Page 2
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