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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 152, 24 July 1888, Page 3

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{ PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. | Auckland, July 21. Mr Gladstone is to issue a manifesto to editors. It is also reported that, hi has a new proposition as to the settlement of the Irish question, which he will introduce into the House, and which provides for a National Assembly for Ireland and the continuation )f Irish representation in the Imperial Parliament. The National Assembly are to control the Irish police. Alarming advices from the Cape «rere received in London on June 27th. ill the available troops at Natal were >rdered to proceed to Zululand, as an mtbreak was feared among the Zulus ihere. The reports are corroborated >y dispatches of June 30th. The 2ulus are gathering in formidable lumbers. All the troops in Natal are ordered to the frontier, and messages lave been received by the War De>artment asking immediate reinforconeuts. Orders had been sent to Capetown, and the local Scots Reginent with artillery, eighteen officers, torses, and supplies for the voyage mbarked for Natal on the 30th. The mmediate cause of the outbreak is iot stated. Trouble has been brewng for a long time. The majority of the Royal Comaittee on Education recommend a greater amount of Christian teaching a Education Board schools ; also, inreased aid from rates to private chools over which the ratepayers aye no control. An influential minor;y oppose the recommendations. It has been decided, because the tritish Go rernment refuses to pay a ension to Mr Matthew Arnold's ddow, to solicit funds for a bust in Westminister Abbey, provision for Irs Arnold, and scholarships in Engsh literature at Oxford. M. J. H. Zukefort, the famous chess layer, died in London on June 20th. [c was born in Riga, Russia, in 1842. [c was defeated by William Steinitz l the International Chess Match in le United States in 1886. Death as caused by cerebral hemorrhage. Mrs Boucicault (Agnes Robertson) btained a divorce from Dion Bouciiult in London on June 21st, and has een awarded costs. No witnesses ere examined for the defence. The jspondent's counsel contended that j lere was no marriage between the arties. The ship Dotheboys Hall, from San 'rancisco, arrived at Liverpool on une 28th, and reports that the captain as fatally stabbed by the steward, The appeal of Mr Dillon against the ldgment under the Crimes Act was euided against him on June 19th, nd his sentence of six months' iinrisonment was confirmed. Mr Dillon rotested on the ground that his apeal was tried without a jury, and no yidenee was called. Father Gilligan, who was tried nder the Coercion Act, on a charge f attending a proclaimed meeting 1 , ■as on the 21st June adjudged guilty y the Dublin Court, and sentenced a imprisonment. The Pesther Lloyd, of Pesth, thinks Imperor William's proclamation reembles the programme of Pastor itoker. Dr Mackenzie left Berlin suddenly n June 20th. He asked an audience f the Emperor, and was refused, 'his is regarded as significant that lie anti-English feeling is becoming itensified in the Emperor's mind. The late Emperor Frederick, by rill, bequeathed the Castle of Charlotanberg and Palaces in Berlin and lamburg to Empress Victoria. The anarchist plot against the life f Emperor William is reported to aye been discovered on June 80th, >ut the Socialists declare the report o be the invention of the police. ?here is an extraordinary increase in he precautions for the safety of the Smperor. Bismarck has had the juards reinforced around the palaces it Potsdam, and the building is >ractically isolated. Several persons tave been arrested for throwing petiions in to the Emperor. For some ;ime menacing letters have reached Bismarck and the Emperor, warning ;hem that the beginning of a reign of repression of the people would be jignalised by an act of retaliation. It is said that the Emperor authorities tome striking act of severity against the Socialists, the leaders of whom resent the assassination reports as a pretext to reactionary measures. A great sensation was caused in Berlin on June 21st by the publication af the late Emperor's private papers. They discuss family and political affairs, including overtures made to the Emperor Frederick to induce him to abdicate in favour of his son William. It is asserted that the notes are genuine. They show that William urged his father to consent to a Regency. The intrigues of Pastor Stocker and General Waldemar to get William into the Pietistic movement are also revealed. The Empress Victoria is thought to have consented to the exposures. Up to 10 o'clock on the morning of June 25th, the record of cases of prostration by heat in New York was unprecedented. In a June day, at noon the list reached a total of twenty, all more or less fatal, and directly caused by the torrid atmosphere. Many victims expired without the slightest premonition of their fate. Some of them in the prime of life were in the best of health and spirits on the previous day and corpses on the next. Children in crowded, reeking tenements, died off like flowers that withei in the sun. Aged persons in man) quarters, attempting to move aboul in their ordinary persuits, sat dowr ( ay to gasp their last. Several persons died at their breakfast table The temperature wag cooler in the evening, but the death-list of the 25tl was very large. The range of th< theormometer was from 91 to 99. The first Chinese newspaper ii America was started in New York oi June 9th. The . editor advises hii countrymen to stay at home, as then are too many Chinese in America.