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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 2301, 9 August 1887, Page 2

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[By Electric Teleeraph.-^Copyngbt ] [beUTEB's TEiK«JEAMB.I ' Received. August 9, li'3o a.m. , v •■■'. / > 'LowDoir/itngiast 7. The Board of Trade enquiry into , the loss of the Peninsula and Oriental Company's steamer Tasmania off the ; coast of Corsica in Aprttfost^as^beeir 'brought to a conclusion. The Court found that the second officer was mainly to blame for the disaster, and •.ordened-his certificate^to brsiispTeiadea" 1 Ivfor two yearsi Captain Pemns, who perished &t the- wreck, "was entirely exonerated, s- - : >| ■) 'i Mails* per P. and 0/s steamer . Kaiser i Hind, Melbourne Jjiue i2B^ were delivered to-day via'Briridisii .-;• : - ; -■■>. V ' ■•• ■.*>■■■■■ . ;•. I. ;1 ,-I ;■ London, August TV - r > 111 the House of Commons last night, the Irish Land Bill was read a third time without a division. Tio naval eyolutions off the English coast have been brought to a conclusion, and ;the squadrons, under Admirals Freemantle ,and Hewitt, hare returned to Portsmouth. The strike of the engine-drivers and firemen of the goods trains of the Midland Railway continues. The passenger , traffic, : however, is but little affected, but the goods traffic is greatly impeded. The other companies are according to the Midland Railway every possible assistance! . \- Lord Harrington was entertained at ■ a banquet at; Greenwich by the LiberalUnionists last night, r Mr Bright, who presided, denounced Mr Gladstpnefor his unstatesmanlike conduct, for urir settling the minds of the people of Scotland and Ireland, and aiding the Irish members to obstruct the business of Parliament. Lord Hartdngtbn declared that Mr Gladstone's concession in regard to the hind question would not change the attitude of the Unionist < party. , A closer alliance with the Conservative party,, his Lordship said, was at present not justified, but during: the recess the Conservatives might tend to promote reforms when -a closer . agreement with the Unionist-Liberals ■-was possible. ; iA motion to reduce theretired pay of Sir John Ady e, on the ground that he was responsible for 'the defective cutlasses in use in the Navy, was lost by 13 votes. ; ' Porty French railway officials have been expelled from the German side of the frontier. Mr J. C. Brown has sold the Blue Spur mines at Tuapoka to an English syndicate; and has also arranged for the formation of an English company, with a capital of £100,000,' to supply new Zealand mutton direct to consumers without the intervention of middlemen. '. l : . • .. ; At a meeting in coßnection with the State-aided; colonisation; a scheme was submitted, and it was suggested that the capital should be subscribed by the public, with an Imperial guarantee f>i three per cent, interest the colonies to grant land to emigrants, and the money to be repaid at the end of thirty years, with 4" per cent, interest. In the House of Commons Mr Kirn her asked whether the Government were prepared to entertain: such a Bcheme. Mr W. H. Smith replied that the question was one of considerable importance and the scheme, a novel one, and the Government would require to consider it with great care before arriving at a deoioion: ' A writ of error h«s been granted in the case of Maxwell (the St. Louis murderer)/ and the result is that the execution will probably be indefinitely postponded. .. •; • ._; ,:.; . ■.' VI '''.■':":-.:■• .-■ ,■:-•■-'•.-- AUgUSt 8. The; Tasmaman Creek Tin Mining Company has been registered with a capital of £210,000* , ; "A conflict has occurred between some Orangemen and Nationalist excursionists, near • Belfast. • Three' persena .were shot and the train was wrecked. ■ - The goods traffic-on the Midland Bailwas has been entirely restored, a fresh body of drivers and firemen having been secured: The men who went on strike are applying in large numbers to be reinstated. . :"■-; -•. ■ -■ '■ ■'■:■ .■ •■■■■■•■ ■••■ : •:,-. -. - ;■••■: "Vikkwa, August 7; ; ■Emperor William of Germasy and Emperor Francis Joseph : 6t Austria are now at Gastein, and have had a most cordial interview. ; f Prince Ferdinand, of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince-elect of Bulgaria, starts to-day from Ebcnthal for Sofia'/ '