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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 118, 21 March 1885, Page 2

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_* " Special to Star." SHOCKING MINING ACCIDENT. 200 LIVES LOST. Tbeuteb's teleobams.l Berlin, March 18. A disastrous mining explosion occurred to-day. at Saarbrecke, Rhenish Prussia, by which two hundred miners were entombed. London, March 18. A quiet tone prevailed at to-day's wool sale. The catalogue comprised 9,300 bales. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales the Duke of Edinburgh, arid Prince Albert Victor, started to-day. for • Berlin to attend the festivities to be held in connection with the celebration of Emperor Williams's birthday. The Bank of England has reduced its rate of discount to three and a-balf per cent. The New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M.S. Kaikoura, left TenenfEe this morning for Wellington, via the Cape. Lord Derby doub:s whether an Imperial Federal Council is possible. . . Germany has subsidised a line of steamers to Australia and the East. It is stated in Berlin that the voyage to Sydney will be performed In thirty-six days. Lerd Derby states that Admiral Tryon is in possession ot a plan for the purpose of securing joint action between the Australian and Imperial Navies.' He has also power to create a Federal authority, and, in order to simplify this, the English Government are making overtures to all of the colonies. The Bank of England has paid £1,200.000 of the New South Wales loan into the account of the New South Wales Go? eminent with the Associated Banks. T'»e German territory in New Guinea has been named Kaiser Wilhelm's Land. I be Reichstag has approved of v branch at Samoa and Tonga ot the new German line of steamers to Australia. Prince Alfred Victor has been initiated into Freemasonry. Received March 21, 110 a.m. Berlin, March 19. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, and Prince Albert Victor arrived te-day from London. London, March 20. The Dai'y News states it is probable that the northern portion of Queensland will be formed into a Crown Colony.