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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 31, 24 August 1886, Page 3

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♦- Per Mail Steamer Auckland. £*EE njfllED PRESS ASSOCrATION.J Auckland, Aagusi 22. ; The Alaineda arrived from San Framdsco^at 8 a.m. Circulars are being -distributed in Wales demanding Home Rule, free «duuatiai^«>aboli€Har:-0f landlordism, and disestablishment of the churcn. A cablegram of July 30th from London saysthasenaatiou in the new Cabinet is the' appointment of Theory Sinithus W Home Secretary. It was a request of. the Queen, who was charmed by his vindication in the Oawford jtriaL_ of English homes. It is entirely -an- experiment. He is without .Government experience, is a [Roman jOatholi.c,'; ajdd.an anti-poerc-ionist. • .. " , \ . ...<>. John fiuakin is r<J|>prted to be insane. Cora Pearl died at Paris, poor and in distress. Of ..late .years, ._ owing ,to «xcessive. "corpulence, she* fed grown almost »ut of .r.jec6gnition., _ s „,., The Prince ' of Wales' sons are charged' with plagiarism in "The Cruise of-tke Baccfiante.''., The passage wbi jh. beginsJ "" We BHould.be less • than men" and ends." but sad memories of their useless valour" is taken almost word for word from Charles Kingley's " At Last," where it will be found in the second chapter. An attempt* on the part of the authorities of Amsterdam to prevent the popular grime " eelkilling" on Sunday, led to a conflict with tho police »tt July 15th. The rioters erected a barricade, and the police fired into the crowdj killing 20 persons aud wouiidmg.Bo: Thirty-eightarrests were made. - : ' : Despatches of the 15th say that Tgxd Salisbury was cordially received hr the Queen at Osborne House. - On Jus retnrn from Osborne House he was cheered all along the route, and by immense crowds at London. He declined to speak anywhere. The parents of Eliza Armstrong, who figured so conspieiously in the Fall Mall Gazette exposure, have arranged to bring a suit for £8000 damages against Mr Stead, the editor, its publishers, and General Booth of the Salvation Army. The claim will be for libel on the girl's parents, and for assaulting the child. The Eev. H#nry Ward Beecher's lectures were but poorly attended, the admission fee being too high. Catherine Lewis, sister ef Jeffrey Lewi*, and a, pretty opera comique singer, knownin Australia, has scoured a divorce from her husband. - Oscar Aifredaon, of the. Louden World, says that Mr Gladstone is goingen a coasting' "excursion as soon as he is released from official work: After the parliamentary debate he will not be seen again in'thefHoiiße of Commons for several mouths. . He proposes to start for-HEo&e early iv November, and to -remain in Italy till after E.i*ter. •■ • . ./ Maxwell; the 4 murderer, has been &tntmn-M to^e hanged- on- August 27. St. JdMi'&New "Foundland Colonist, of Juiyvisfgontradiotß the Sensational reports 6f* destitution 'in* that colony; and says **&ere : nave 'bfeett. nb deaths from starvation.- The same paper denounce* Webbel, who 'Canada seeking -assistance,- as ai impostor. DwpatcLuis from Ottawa %ay that the Govarnulijnt' has'nb official 'knowledge of the - reported woeful condition of things in l^bradw,' antT-believe the roports te be without foundation. Willifeui John Hurst, a prominent citizen of Auckland, and member of the Colonial PaiiMamont fell 1 into the hands of the press interviewers after he arrived in San Francftco. -He gave rather a sad coloured view" of affairs in New Zealand, 4nd«aid the colony was suffering from a spell of depression, that the taxes were'excessive, ,and growing heavier every year, but he hoped things , -would be better jrhen the Opposition ousted the present unpopular Ministry. He attributed thY depression to' tfie fact that for many y^aris the people of the colony Have been living on^one another, and on the country. *if - .