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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 105, 5 April 1888, Page 3

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a By Electric Telegraph.— Copy nghi » | PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I Received April 5, 1.30 p.m. t AJelboubnb, This Day. q The Farmers' Protection Associa j tion demand they should be placed oj ,g an equal footing with the Trades au< |g Industrial Associations. Resolution r were passed favoring single elector 0 ates, a bounty on wheat exports L that 25 per cent, duty be imposed oi B imported grain, as a protection agains r adulteration and imitation ; that 21 {l per cent, duty should be imposed oi B imported stock aad meat without re j bate. j The night watchman at the Princesi t • Theatre last night discovered a burg £ lar working at the door of the strong _. room. He fired at the man, bui * missed him, and the burglar escaped j The safe contained a large sum o; £ money. Numerous burglaries have been reported lately. s lisisßANE, This Day. j A vigorous anti-chinese crusade it j going on. Adelaide, This Day. f Major-General Downes has sent t 1 j report to the Government on the . J defences of the Colony, and states thai c | Adelaide is the only vulnerable poini j in Australia. The defences in Vie- . toria, he mentions, are particularly . effective. , ■ Wellington, This Day. ( The Government, have received, ( through the Agent-General, 25 applications for the Chief Cnmmissionert ship for Railways, but after examination it was found that none could come up to the mark required. A ' majority of the applicants hold subordinate positions on English railways. None were received from America.