" Special to Star."

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 123, 2 April 1885, Page 2

" Special to Star."

[REUTERS TKLEGHAMB.I London, March 30. Her Majesty the Queen left London to-day for Aix-les-bains, in Savoy, which place has been recommended by her medical advisers. ' The was a fair demand at to-day's wool auction. The catalogue comprised 8.300 bales. The frozen meat by the Aorangi, from New Zealand, has arrived in excellent condition. The French Senate has approved of the report submitted to them, which advocate! an racrease of duty on corn and and flour. „.;..< ... At the banquet, given by Earl Rosebery, the Prince of Wales, Pnnce Albert Victor, the Agents-GeneraJ, Mr J C. Bray, ex-Premier of South Australia, and Mr J. B. Thurston, Colonial Secretary of j Fiji, were present. The orders given >y the Imperial authorities for canned beef from Chicago have entirely exhausted the market in that country. /: -Referring to the sculling. match for the championship of the world, the Sportsman is doubtful whether Beach would be able to conclude a match with an English, sculler. : Financial authorities in London regard thia as a favourable time for floating c*lomal loans. The report that M. de Giers, Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, had resigned, is now declared to be unfonnded. Cunningham and Burton, the men arrested on the charge of being concerned in the recent dynamite outrages on the House of Commons and the Tower, and who are supposed to be connected with the explosions q* the London railways some time ago, have been committed for trial! , . Lord Derby has agreed to excise clause 26 of the Federation Enabling Bill, but adheres >to clause 31, providing that the council could only be enlarged at the request ot the various Legislatures. Lord Derby doubts whether the bill would be operative- without New South Wales, agreeing to join in. Received April 2, noon. London, April 1. The public revenue for the year ended 31st March amount ed l» £88.000,000. '