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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 88, 25 February 1888, Page 2

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— • By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright; 1* PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, February 24. A thousand quarters of Australian wheat has been sold at 30s. In the House of Commons, Sir James Fergusson made a statement in connection with tbe recent expulsion of the Rev. Mr Jones from the New Hebrides. The French Government declare that the reason Jones was expelled was on account of his actively propagating a proposal to have the group annexed to Australia despite the warning given him by the French authorities. Dublin, February 24. The Rev. Father Kennedy, of Cork, has been sentenced to two months' imprisonment for attending a meeting of a branch of the Land League, which has been suppressed. Brisbane, February 24. A new sheep disease has appeared va. some parts of the colony. It is of a I mangy character, and rather Virulent. It is thought the grass of the districts iv which the disease has made its appearancemay be the cause of the disorder. Melbouhnb, February.24. Two startling cases of criminal assaults. on women are iii the hands of the police. . One was committed in the middle of the month and only became known through the woman being on the point of death. In the other case a number of. men are concerned, and in both instances the victims were brutally lllused.