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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 113, 24 April 1888, Page 2

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By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. LP^b. UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] London*. April 21. Wheat, ex warehouse. 35s ; ex ship, 34s 3d. American wheat reports are unfavourable. St. Pet hsburg, April 22. It is officially announced that Russia will inuintain a permanent force of 300.1 XX) men <m the Austrian and German frontiers. Paris, April 22. A committee of the Chamber of De puties has reported favorably on the Pun 'i in a Canal loan. Tht 1 disturbances between PHrismn students und the Boulan^erist party still continue. Melbourne, April 23. Dr Mearn, whose death is announced, was Df.-m of Faculty L;iw at the Melbourne University. Mrs Rappeport, wife of Mr Rapp -port, J.P., has been arrested on a charge oF stealing jewellery, the properly of the vi i f e of the Hon. Simmon Fraser in Jai.« nt ry hist. The accused suffers troiuner vousness, .md is not responsible for lier actions. The shock of beinj arrested has prostrated her so much that her life is despaired of, and in consequence the charge lies b<en withdrawn. The urre.it jutiKed a great s»nsat on. I'okt Dauwin, April 23. A Chinese sion keener here has been arrested on a eh rge of mnnslaughter. He hudu fellow countryman in his em* uioy who becune ill, an. l trie storekeeper, to avoid the expense of obtaining medical ■issist ince, took the unf >rtunate man out into the bush, where he died after terriole suffering from hunger and thirst, Adelaide, .April 23 There Jhas been a large development in mining industry during the last fifteen months in this city. Twenty-one new companies were registered with a nominal capital of five und a half million pounds. Sydney, April 23. A fire at Gunnedah. 265 miles N.W. of Sytinej, destrove-.i eight buildings, including that of the Salvation Army. Mr bell, the representative of iS'ew Zealand, arrived here to-day, and took his seat at the rabbit conference, which was occupied nil day discussing the question of a suitable site on which to conduct experiments. Ultimately it was decided that Taralla station near Wilcannia, should be secured, and experiments wi'h M. Pasteur's scheme of microbes be conducted there. Those engaged in the rescue work of the Salvation Army give terrible and distressing uoeounts of the immorality prevalent in ihis city. During the last two /ears the Society have pass<d through their hnnd between two Lund red and three hundred fe--mules whose a g e » ranged from 12 years to 2j years. Some of the very worst class of chi.dren were those of tender years, The Society in their report exp:-e.«B the opinion that the numerous dens in this city are the source of much viceReceived April 21, 12.50 p.m. Londov, April 23. Tenders for the ISew South Wales loan were opened to«day. The floating of the loan was a great success, £6,630,---000 being subscribed. Tenders at £103 10s receive 31 per cent. -170 tenders were received. The Secretary of the Lixnaw branch of the National League has been sentenced to six months imprisonment for intimid* ating Norah Fitz. Maurice, the widow of James FitzMaunce, who was murdered for taking up an ericted farm in County Kerry.