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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 92, 21 January 1888, Page 3

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.EiTRE;4T.'0 F TflE ABrSSIiNIANS, 'kiENiSiWS'". A#f rTXJDJS ! L . OF THE ■'?. ■■ '\ ! ,,V^'''' T ,W^C 1: .V"..-" '"• .. Byi Electric ' Te'egrap.^ Copyright. p ! [PEJEI UNITE? Vni SS. ASSOCIATION. "] | Received, January £4., 12. 5 p.m. Il ■:"!■' . | SuAKiii; : ;iii'riu/ify 22. It ja i rep6rt6d ; here 1 that the Negus of Abyssinia, who has'; -been advancing on the 1 Italian 1 troop's in the northj has brdeVed the ' retreat of his: forces ' fearing a t counter irivaston; by Dervishes and' owing to dignontent amongst , 'the.people in Southern. Abjssinia.- ■:•• I :'■<■.; ■, I.jCoNBIAJfTINOPI.jE^l .jCoNBIAJfTINOPI.jE^ Jannnrjj 23<;... . the E'6um(Blianiffbntie f r. ', .";;.'. '■ ' Ji i •'"' )J ' Sydney, This Day, ■; ' " : (The Government rhas, "decided, to withdraw the prohibition' on the' importation !of stock, as* recommended 'at ! the Stook Conference last year. .... ~ ' l lt has 1 transpir&i-the Broken Hill mine : has had five smelters running out molten f silvei" nighfc and* day.H ; L i \:J/, ;.'<'{ ',7 I The .Attorney-General has received a letter f^om'the Son. tfohn Bright urging [ axlhiaion to their ; Freetrade principals. \' 'The'£tistaT Conference last'evehirig devoided it''would be advisiable' to connect r -iPortlDarwiri'wittiißurketdwiiia'nd Quens1' land' by telegraphy « /sot < that, iwhen i com> I,'rb'ubication became interrupted on the i transcontjuental^linff .another route,; via woul^ be available. After a lengthy discussion it was resblveo! iiot to i join 'the Postal Union Vtill "each colony allowed a delegate:^ Strong^ feeling on 'the Subject was manifested during the discussion. .;■!<.' ; ! ! ; i Mtcibouhnk, This Day. •- ; The barque^, .Edinburgh Castle, wrecked a^Warnambool on the 'l6th, has broken : up, and her cargo has been destroyed. „ .-.-! [p«iß TJKITS:]S'PETBBB .ASSOCIATION.] >, ■■■:.' >s ym r Wellington, This Day. . ;lThe s,s. Mariposa,, with English mails to 28th. December, left San Francisco for i^Auckland on the 14th lhst., three days [•late.: ' j ; The Zealandia, -with Colonial mails [of, the 2nd inst., just arrived at San I Francisco from. Auckland on 21st, one day early.