LATE TELEGRAMS.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 42, 27 September 1887, Page 2

LATE TELEGRAMS.

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Paris, S*pt. 25. It has been ascertained that the persons vrho shot at and wounded a French lieutenant, at the same time killing the gamekeeper who accompanied him, are the keepers of a German estate on the frontier. They assert that they fired at the Frenchmen believing them to be poachers. The Frenoh Government has taken diplomatic action in the matter. London, September 26. *Shortly after his release from prison on bail, Mr O'Brien, who was closely watched by the authorities, succeeded by a series of elaborate ruses in evading the police, and at once proceeded to address a meeting of the National League which the Government had proclaimed, -but which took place outside Mitchelltown. In his speech O'Brien defied the Government.

Dr Tanner, M.P. for County Cork (Mid), addressed a meeting of Nationalists yesterday at Feruioy, County Cork, endeavouring to disperse the gathering a severe conflict took place between the police and people, the former freely using their batons, fifteen of the crowd being severely injured. The mob retaliated by stoning the police. It is officially announced that an agreement has been arrived at between the British and Canadian Governments to jointly subsidise a monthly service between Vancouver Island, China, and Japan.