" Special to Star."

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 121, 28 March 1885, Page 2

" Special to Star."

[ÜBVTKBS TKLEGBAM.H.J Lexaex, March 25: The Oxford crew are favorites in the rare against Cambridge at 2 to 1. Intelligence is to hand from Saskatchewan, a province of Canada, that 600 half-breeds, commanded by a half-breed named Kiel, have succeeded in seizing j Fort Saskatchewan. Pans. Match 36. The committee of the French Cham, bers appointed in connection with the Kecidivistes Bill, has selected French Guiana and New Caledonia as the places to which the convicts are to be transported. Advices te hand from General Negrier, commanding a portion of French force in Tonquin, state, that be has sustsiaed a severe repulse at the hands' of the enemy, and been obliged to retire to Dong Da with the loss of 200 men. Received March 28,1.10 a.m. Stdkkt, March 27. , Sailed—the Ringarooma, for Auckland, this afternoon. Great. interest is manifested in the •sculling match -for the champion-hip of the world, which takes place to-morrow. Beach aad Hanlan are in excellent condition, and there is every prospect of Ta Sirited contest. The betting is even. »c weather to-night j 9 fi nt «nd there is ♦Very indication of a coatinuatioa of fair weather.