TOWN EDITION.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 132, 7 June 1888, Page 3

TOWN EDITION.

I - : By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (per unitkd PKh.es yssociajmov.} Received June 7, 12 45 p m. I . Sydney, This Day. I Doctor Black, of Dunedin, has accepted the Presidency of the Chemistry and Mineralogy section of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. A scheme of military defence is about to be submitted to Parliament. London, June 7. Particulars of the outbreak in Zululand state that Dinizulu did not attack Usibefu but assaulted the police who were arresting cattle raidero. Baron de Worms in reply to a question in the House of Commons said the Banstas were sending a force and the British reinforcement had also been despatched to punish Dinizulu. The Pan-Anglican synod will hold its first sitting on July 3i*d. One hundred and f ourty-f our Bishops from all parts of the British Empire will be piesented. John Bright is now out of danger. Mr Stead, editor of the Pall Mali Gazette, has had an interview with the Czar during which they discussed the European situation. The result of their conversation is not yet disclosed. Mr P. Secton, M.P., opened the Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures at Dublin. General Sheridan lies in a most precarious condition. His death is hourly expected. A majority of Unionists and Liber* ala will support the licensing clauses of the Local Government Bill, and also many of the Irish members aad Home Rulers.