GABLE NEWS.
, . • ' ■ I By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright [PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! London. May 10 No selection has been made from the ' applicants for the position of Chief Commissioner of the Nt-w Zealand Kail way Boar. l. The appo ntment will be made privately, The Nonconformist clergymen have forwarded an address to Mr Gladstone, in which they condemn the policy of the Government in treating political offenders as felons. Mr Gladstone thanked them and hoped that popular opin.on would soon demand a change in the administration of Ireland. The Antwerp wool auctions opened yesterday with great auimation. The prices show an advance of five centimes . oil the closing rates in January. Of the 18,400 bales available, 35<>O are from Australia, Lord Knutsford has informally as« sured.Sir Graham Berry, the Agent General for Victoria that the anxiety of , the colonies as to the influx of Chinese is ' justified, but he desires to satisfy himself that the requests of the colonial Governn ments are within the obligations of the existing treaty between England and i China. __________ I
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 121, 12 May 1888, Page 2
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