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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 140, 26 June 1888, Page 2

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GENERAL SUMMARY I PER UHIXBT) PBEBB ASSOCIATION."} Auckland, June 23. An election was held to fill the seat made vacant by the resignation of Admiral Sir John Commerell Evans, who was absent in America, but his wife took personal charge of the canvas, aided by her son and several distinguished ladies, including Lady Anne Blunt and Mrs Jane Cobden. The lady workers of the Primrose Club were very active in securing votes for Mr Quest, while the contest was very earnest. It was at the same time good-natured voting. After one, of the closest struggles ever made at an election in Great Britain Evans stood at 5 1 52 and Guest 4266. The Liberals could scarcely believe their good fortune, and celebrated their victory most effusively. The first credit of £2,600,000 for national defences will be followed by others if the war scare in Great Britain continues. Mr Morgan, the owner of the recently discovered Welsh Gold Mines, states that the auriferous area is ten miles in length by 60 miles breadth. Some of the output of his immediate properties is said to have contained from 500 to 1000 ounces of gold to the ten. The metal assays are almost chemically pure. There have- also been rich gold discoveries made on the eßtate of Lord Newborough and Sir Watldn William Wynn, in North Wales. Matthew Arnold's will, dated, July, 1883, consists of one single clause, leaving everything to his wife. It is valued at about £10,000. Mr Blainej who recently declined the aomination by the [Republican S,rty, will make a coaching trip with r Andrew Carnegie throughout England and Scotland, journeying; 700 miles. Mr Fechter, ton of the great actor, was lulled in Paris oa May 31st while fencing with hia brother-in-law. The foil entered the brain through the eye, killing trim instantaneously. Bubear has issued a challenge to Boss to row in England for £200; a-side. :; "■ ''. \.' " '' . ' J;\, ■ The great libel suit of Mr O'DonneU against the .London Times is set down for June 19. Many famous names are embraced on the witness lißt. ; -. -..; . ■■...,. . .;■ „;^;-.;:- -:;'.\. -■■■■■ Six women employes were burned to death in a fire among the drapery storeeof Edgeware Road, London, on May 31st. . A number of representative Quaker* have issuad a letter dieavowing sympathy vrith. Mr Gladstone and the tactics of the National League. The new trains of the Great Northern Railway will cover the distance between London and Edinburgh in 8£ hour*, and between "London and . Glasgow in 9 hours. * , - : ; The Bey Mr Spurgeon will not return to the membership of the Baptist Union as has been eiatedl . The first edition of Ignatius Don- . nelly's, " Great Cryptogram" bookon the Baconian theory regarding the Authorship of Shakespeare is not selling in London. The book is much criticised, but nobody buys it. Mr Donnelly lectured before the Oxford students on Ma; 31st. The Irish bishops lave not yet given their adhesion to the Papal rescripts. The investigations into the frauds ia connection with tho Equitable Life Insurance of New York began in : Belfast, and have been extended to Dublin. Prominent merchants have been arrested ia the farmer city in consequence of the disclosures, and Mr Bryne, manager of the Equitable agency in Dublin, has absconded. The Tipperary militia, while marching to their annual encampment on May 22nd, groaned and hooted at the name of Balfour, and cheered those of Parnell aad O'Brien. The Birmingham Post, Mr Chamberlain's personal organ, published on May 22nd, the following as his Irish programme : — Extensive public works aided by the Irish Exchequer ; hind . purchase on Irish predit, and worked . under Irish authority ; reform of th» executive admistration and municipal government, and the re-establishment of provincial councils with local legislative powers. Madame Wilson, M. Grevy*B daughter, haa concluded to take up her residence in New York. She is driven out of Paris by social humiliation, consequent on the decoration scandals. : From various reports received in Dublin to May 24th, it is estimated that 103 fishermen have been' lost in the recent gales off the coast of Ire-" land. Desperate rioting occurred at Dun- * glow, County Donegal, May 24th. The police used their clubs at first without avail, and finally charged upon the mob with drawn Bwords. A number ware injured on both sides. ' " * A meeting, 20,000 strong, was held at Limerick on. May 27th, at which Editor O'Brien attacked the bishop of that diocese for his efforts to make practical applications of the Popish rescript. He was endorsed by thoßs present. : * . It is rumoured that a number of Irish priests, who became prominent advocates of the Plan of Campaign, will be drafted to the colonies as misidonaries, and kept out of the reach of political events "for some years. ' It is asserted that Mr Gladstone , and Lord Randolph Churchill will attejmpt the collaboration of a new scheme fox the government of Irelaad, to force upon Lord Salisbury, by holding over his head the Unionist vote.. At the celebration of the Queers Birthday in Dublin, the troops were reviewed at Limerick. The military were cheered, while counter cheers were < given outeide the barracks for Mr William O'Brien and the Kan of. ■ Campaiga. ..<w- «■>*.. -.t,, .-5