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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 83, 11 February 1888, Page 2

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-— , — - i : ••• i :By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright [PEB UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION, j London, February 8. ltis officially stated that for private reasons Lord Dufferin, Viceroy of India returns at the end cf the year, and that he will be succeeded by the Marquis of Lansdowne, .Governor* General ol Canada. Lord Stanley of Preston, G.C.B , President of the Board of .. Trade.Jn .the present Salisbury Administration, succeeds the Marquis of Lansdowne as.. Governor-General of Canada. A Home Rule debate has been ar j ranged for at Oxford University Among the speakers on the occasion will be Lord handolph Churchill aud the Rigiit Kon. John Morley; Sir Michael Hicks- Beach, iv tbe course of a speech yesterday, besought the Unionist party to reform the bon Is of the Church before the political pendulum swing to auarciiy. Parliament was opened to-day. The speech emphasises the necessity for racking provision on tne Estimates for the complete defence of coaling stations, and refers to tne subsidy proposed for the . equipment of the Australian auxiliary squadron. It also promises increased facilities for the transformation of Irish occupiers of land into owners of holdings. Mr Gladstone, speaking at Thorneliff , declared that Southern England alone is opposed to the desire of Ireland for Home Rule. St. Petebsbubo, February 8. The Moscow University, which was j closed in the middle of December, o^ing ! to the continuous rioting of the students. ■ has been reopened. - i Hono Kono. February f a The amount of destitution caused by the recent disastrous floods on the Hoanghc river has now been estimated^ and fully two million -inhaoitants have been utterly deprived of their possessions. Pabis, February 9. - It is announced that the Government intend to reduce the French squadrons on foreign stations in order to increase the strength of those in European waters. M.Wilson has been summoned to ap pear before the Police Tribunal on the 16th instant, to answer farther charges in connection with the War Office scandal. Vibsna, February 7. The Government have asked for a vote of half a million florins for the purpose of increasing the Lnndwebr. The leading sugar manufacturers in Austria have petitioned the Government against the convention drawn up by the Sugar Bounties Conference. Calcutta, February 6. A force of Kutsis attacked a party In the Chittugong Hills, ia Bengal Presi dency. During the fight which ensued Lieutenant Stewart and two men were killed. Dublin, February 7. Mr Shaw - Lefevere, M.P., who has taken a prominent part in several of th* recently proclaimed lueetin.s. intends to hold a meeting at Loughrea on Friday next. The magistrates at tbat place are consul ing the authorities as to what course to adopt iv the matter. San Reko, February £. After consultation the physicians in attendance on the Crown Prince decided to perform the operation of tracheotomy. The operation was successfully performed, and the royal patient was immediately relieved, and is now doing well.