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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 141, 4 June 1887, Page 2

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• [By Klectne Telegraph.— Copyright ] ! rBEUTKB'B TELEftBAMH I ] London, June 2. ] Mr Gladstone will ri*h Swansea to- j day, -where preparations have been made ] for an immense demonstration to wel% come him. Addressing a meeting of the shareholders of the Peninsular and < 'rient ( Company Yesterday, Mr Sutherland chairman of directors, referrring to the * wreck of the &• M.S. Tasmania, defended . the employment of Lascars as seamen, j declaring they were quite as efficient and ] better behaved than Europeans. He , took occasion to contradict the statement . j that the employment of Lascars was cheaper than that of Europeans. . Doctor Mackenzie, the eminent special- . ist in throat diseases, will pay another " - visit to Berlin on Sunday next in order to again examine the Grown Prince's condition. At a conference of the National Radical Union, which is being held at Birmingham, Mr Chamberlain, president, made a strong protest against Mr Gladstone's Home Bute scheme for Ireland, and demanded its complete withdrawal. He, moreover, declared that no further overtures would be made to conciliate Mr Gladstone and his supporters. L< tters were read at yesterday's meeting from Lord Harrington . and Mr John Bright, warmly supporting the objects of the Union. , Mr Bailees, Postmaster-General, has I assured Sir Saul Samuel and Sir Graham Berry, that the Treasury will shortly ratify the contracts recently entered into for the conveyance of Australian mail*. Lord Wolseley approves of the periodical I inspection of Australian military forces bj an Imperial general. The captain, mate, and one seaman of the ship Lady Douglas have been com* mitted on a charge of killing Hassan, a Malay seaman, on the voyage from Shark's Bay, Western Australia, to'Lon. don. Tho defence wa» that Hassan, by certain actions, had imperilled the safety of the ship. Tho Comte d'Aunay, French Consul* General in Egypt, threatens to demand his passports, unless the Khedive promptly appoints a French successor to Judge Sareeakeds. The Ghilzais claim to have severely defeated the Ameer's troops on 16th May. Busna states that England has fortified Herat to stand a ninety days' siege. The Bey. W. G. Lawes, a member of the New Gainea mission, writes discouragingly to the Times of the prospects of the island. He urges that a protect torate would suffice if Mr Douglas, the High Commissioner were invested with full power.