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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 92, 6 March 1888, Page 2

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♦_. By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright [PEK UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. | London, March 2. In the House of Commons the vote for the purpose of a ship for Government work in New Guinea was withdrawn. Lord Randolph Churchill and Mr Glad* stone objected to it, allrgiag that it was . improperly included in the Supplementary Estimates until preof was available that the colony had ratified the agree* ment regarding New Guinea. Lord Randolph Churchill insisted that the Queensland Government ought to pay all costs i if they wanted to colonise New Guinea, j but Baron de Worms replied that Queensland had fulfilled her engagement and it was incumbent on England to ful* fil hers. The Oroya's frozen meat is selling at4d. In tiie House of Commons this even* ing, Mr Matthews, Home Secretary, said the Government would treat the motion tabled bj Sir Charles Eusseil, M.P. for Hackney, with reference to the prohibU tion of meetings in Trafalgar-square, as a vote of censure on the action of the Government if it were agreed to by the House. Iron, Orb and Gospel Oak brand, is firm at Ll6 10s. Massowah, March 1. The Negus, at the head of 80,000 men, is hourly expeoted to make an attack on the Italian troops under LieutenantGeneral A. A. Di San Marzano, Com-mandant-in-Chief. Rome, March 3. A body rioters caused a disturbance by pillaging a number of shops and stoning the occupants. The troops were called out, and charged and dispersed the mob.