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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 91, 19 January 1888, Page 2

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— « By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright (PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] London, January 16. Mr Parnell declares that tt will be politic to facilitate English legislation ralber than to retard it, for then the Unionists and Conservatives would be certain to disagree. He also advises an agitation for the reduction of the term of judicial rents to fire years. An English firm has received orders from the Bussian Government for the construction of war balloons. . . Obituary—Sir John Staples, F.S.A. The deceased was Lord Mayor of London in 1885. BUhop Moorhouse, in the course of a sermon on Sunday, declared that the fear of the military alone averted a bloody socialistic revolution. Tithe disorders are again imminent in Wales, but up to the present disturban* ces have been averted owing to the pres* ence of the military. The Rugby Union considers that if compensation is granted to football teams it will practically mean that clubs re* ceiving such considerations must be termed professional. Continued interest is being manifested in the mission of the Duke of Norfolk te the Vatican., It is rumored that he has been parleying for the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Vatican ! and England, on condition that the Pope will intervene with respect to Ireland. Mr J. A. Balfour, Secretary for Ireland r emphatically denies that there is any; truth in the rumor; Sir Graham Berry considers that the! prospects of a good centennial collection , of exhibits at the Melbourne Exhibition are less hopeful, owing te thVunaettled state of affairs i» Europe. Rohb, January 16. The Irish Bishops who were present at the celebration of the Papal Jubilee have had an audience with the Pope, His Holiness exhorted them to use their in* fluence in restoring respect for the law in Ireland, at the same time (ointing out that violence would never succeed in attaining the end desired. Dublin, January 17. A monster meeting has been held at Achill, an island off the west coast of Ireland, County Mayo. The police were stoned by the mob, and were ordered to fire, but by the efforts of the priests, Dr Tanner, M.P., and Mr John Deasy, M.P. for West Mayo, bloodshed was prevented with difficulty. St. Pbtkbsbttbo, January 17. The Czar is at present stayiug at Moscow. He expresses a firm hope, that the. year would be one of peace and prosperity. It is reported that 100 cwt of dyna mite and a number of bombs havebeen -seized at a suburban police station near the city of St. Petersburg.