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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 98, 20 March 1888, Page 2

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— — • 5y Electric Telegraph.— Copyright ' {PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. | London, March 16 , Fresh batter, from New Zealand, 83s ' per cwt. New Zealand four per cents. 106. Queensland and South Australian fours, Lo7£ ; Victorian fours, 114 J. | The ship Loch Garry, which left Mcl- | bourne on December 21, ran ashore at : < the mouth of the Thames, but was floated , off successfully, and towed up to the ' Docks. ; A memorial service, out of respect to the Kaiser Will) elm, is to be held in the chapel at Windsor Castle, at which Her Majesty the Queen will be present. Ihe British fleet and the several garrisons fire a funeral salute of 91 guns to- j day. Hono Kong, March 15. The Chinese Government have directed , the Thibetans who have been raiding , Sikkim to evacuate that State. j Beblin, March 15. J In accordance with the expressed wish \ of Emperor Frederick 111, the royal visitors visited Augusta, the Queen of Prussia, before paying their respects to him* self. Subsequently the dowager visited her speechless son and folded him in a mute embrace. ... , Pabis, March 16. The dismissal of Gener&l Boulanger from the command of the Thirteenth Army Corps at Olermont Ferrand, is generally approved. General Boulanger publishes a statement that bis visit to the city in disguise was in consequence of his having received news of his wife being seriously ill, and that he had been refused leave to visit her. New Yobk, March 16. During, the receut heavy gales communication with Boston has only been maintained through London. Stockholm, March 16. The marriage of Prince Oscar of Sweden to Miss Ebba Munch, a relative of the late Professor Munch the Norwogian historian, was conducted privately, only his mother, the I>uchesa of Albany, and his cousin being present.