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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 99, 22 March 1888, Page 2

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By. Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. I PEE UNITED PKKSB ASSOCIATION."! London, March 20. Mr Cecil Raikes Postmaster. General is again urging the Government of New Zealand to adopt the parcel post system. The latest betting on the University boat race is two to one on Cambridge wanted- . / The statement made by the Daily News correspondent at Stam boul with reference to the evacuation of Egypt by England, and the opening of the Dardanelles to British ironclads, la denied. -'. : March 21. In the House of Lords, Lord Earns suggested that a committee consisting of representatives of the Treasury, Colonial, and War Offices, should be appointed to consider the question of emigration of pensioners to New Zealand. N^wl'obk, March 19. Thousand of navvies are employed removing the snow from the streets in the different towns i visited by the recent storm. In many of the streets bodies have been found in a standing posture, frozen to death. A tremend- ; ou3 gale occurred at sea at the same time as the storm was raging on land, and over 200 wrecks strew the coast from Chesaneake Bay to New York, and the loss of life is incalculable. The effects of the gale were felt with particular severity in Delaware, Maryland, and New York States. Beblin, March 20. The Beichstag has assured the Emperor of its unswerving fidelity. : Pabis, March 20. . The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies has agreed to the Panama Lottery Loan Bill. The Chamber of Deputies is showing a very hostile feeling towards Boulanger. A Military Court is no w inquiring into the alleged breach of discipline in the General's case. Madam. Limousin has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment in , connection with the traffic in decorations. .

At a Communist meeting, General Boulanger was strongly denounced. A number of Deputies belonging to the Left nave issued a manifesto protesting against : General Boulanger's pretensions. General Boulanger will probably be relegated to the retired list. - ; Sydney, March 21. The press generally resents the ' action of Her Majesty's Advisers in connection with the refusal of the Eoyal assent to the Divorce Extension Bill. Melboubnb, March 21. Some time ago a torpedo was lost in Hobson's Bay and has; never been seen since. This afternoon it exploded near Wiiliamstown, causing great consternation. Several Indian army agents have arrived here to purchase horses, for army purposes in India. The maximum price offered is £50. Adjsi-aidk, March 21. The exodus of South Australianfarmers still continues, large numbers' of agriculturalists leaving this colony every week for Victoria and other colonies. To-day a deputation of farmers waited on the Commissioner of Crown Lands. They asked that the Government should either distribute seed wheat to all Crown tenants actually engaged in agricultural pursuits, or that they should be allowed a remission of their rents. The Commissioner promised that he would care* fully consider each case on its merits.