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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 110, 17 April 1888, Page 3

TOWN EDITION.

By Electric Telegraph. -Copyright. )WCB VItITRO PKESS ASSOCIATION.! Received April 17, 140 p.m. London, April 16, Obituary — Baron Macleay, formerly | member of Legislative Council of New South Wales, aged 79 ; Matthew Arnold, poet, aged €6. lonic arrived at Plymouth yesterday from New Zealand. King Humbert and the Queen of Italy have accepted the invitation of Queen I Victoria to visit England, provided that j political matters will permit their leaviug. I Arrived— -Steamer Yarouba, with the ! London portion of the cargo of Messai geries steamer Yarra, which has been i totally wrecked on Quernsey. The crew were sayed, but it is expected the cargo I -will be lost. Sydney, This Day. Mr Stead's thoroughbred horse, Iris, i was shipped to Lyttelton by the Hauroto which sailed yesterday. Both Kemp and Hanlan are in splendid form for the match which takes place on the sth of May. There w a fair j amount of wagering on the match, the odds being in favor of the Canadian. Charles O'Sullivan, who shot dead a man named McLean, who was in the act of committing burglary, nas been charged , with manslaughter aad acquitted. Melbourne, This Day. The Premier has drawn up a memorandum for despatch to England, in which he trusts that the Imperial Government will endeavour to induce the Chinese Government to take similar measures to prevent Chinese emigration to Australia, as they did in the case of the United States. Gibson, a local merchant, claims £10,« 000 from the Government for injuries he sustained in the Windsor railway acci« dent. Desson, of London, has made a proposition to Government in which he expresses his williasjness to undertake an Antartic expedition for a premium of £5000. :