Feilding Star. TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1886. Jack in the Box

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 34, 31 August 1886, Page 2

Feilding Star. TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1886. Jack in the Box

Although we have been led to beleive all sorts of dreadful things had happened to Prince Alexander, that lively Prince has turned up again all safe and sound. It was understood that ho had been spirited away by the Russians, who would 6eud him to Siberia or some other place of exile, and " his place would know him no more." A telegram from Europe informed us on Saturday "that the Russian Government disavows any complicity in the kidnapping of Prince Alexander." Another telegram said that " the Austrian and German Press generally agree that the disappearance of Prince Alexander was necessary to secure the firm accord of the three Empires who are resolved to maintain peace and localise events ou the Danube." Now we discover by a telegram from Vienna, which came to this colony on Sunday, that the Prince arrived at Lemberg, in Galicia, on Thursday, when he received a great ovation. The city was illuminated in his hon«r. The local authorities (we presume the Mayor, Borough Councillors, and Poundkeeper) paid j him a complimentary visit. It is understood that he will proceed to Breslau, in Germany. The interesting part of this disappearance and reappearance consists in the :fact that Russian officials deny the kidnapping, while recent events suggest that either the Prince was not kidnapped at all, or he was a consenting party to his ! arrest in the presence of his troops. It may be that when in " durance vile" certain pledges have been exacted from him, under terror, to behave himself better in future, and obey orders or instructions when proceeding from either of the three Groat Powers who are interested in his welfare. When he was released from custody at Renerussi, a town in Russian Bessarabia, he expressed a hope that Bulgaria would choose another Prince, which looks very significant. Telegrams received to-day put a new phase on the matter. It appears that the poor Prince was kidnapped after all, and not only that, he was brutally illused and treated with great indignity by his captors. We leara also that he is now prepared to die fer the Bulgarians — should the necessity arise for such a sacrifice on his part.