Special to "Star."

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 42, 10 April 1884, Page 2

Special to "Star."

BEVTEB'S TELEGBAMS. London, April 7. Mr Eedmond, M.P., has assured the Pall Mall Garette that the chief aspiration of Irishmen in Australia is the establishment of Home Rule for Ireland He spoke in terms of contempt of Australasian society, and said the motiro for all the stir in favor of the annexation of New Guinea was the desire to secure cheap Kanaka labor. Colonial loyalty was limited to shouting for the Queen. ■ The divorce Court has sustained the legality of the marriage of Lord Enston, heir of the Duke of Grafton, with Kate Cooke, a courtezan, which he disputed on the ground of her having been previously married. The Court held that Kate Cooke's previous marriage was illegal owing to tbe fact that the man she married had already a living wife. Lord Euston is well-known in Australia, where he lived for six years as a Government officer under the name of Fritzroy. The Australian Meat Company have recovered from the underwriters the insurances on the Marsala's cargo of frozen meat. The Oriental Bank's year's profit is reduced to L 2,600, after assigning L 76.000 for debts and depreciation. The directors propose to reduce the nominal value of the shares by one-half so as to strengthen the reserve f nnd. Wheat is tailing in price, owing lo the collapse of the American ring. Forty shillings is offered for Australian cargoes. A scheme is projected, with tbe Duke j of M ancheater as chairman, for the purchase of lands in Carpentar'a. In the House of Common- last night the Electoral Reform Bill, providing fora uniform qualification throughout the three Kingdoms was after a further discussion read a second time on division by a majority of 120. The Parnellites voted with the Government.