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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 153, 26 July 1888, Page 3

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By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (per umted press association.) Received July 26, 12.40 p-m. , London. July 25. i In consequence of rain the cricket i match between Australians and Oami j bridge, past aDd present, was not concluded. An Australian wheat cargo has ' been sold at 34s 3d. Robert Campbell, •warns the public against tendering for the Otago Dock Trust loan of £75,000 tenders for which close to-day. In the House of Commons to-day, Sir William Vernon Harcourt made a i violent attack on Sir R. E. Webster, Attorney-General, for declaring that i he might prosecute Parnell if he be- i lieved the charges. Mr Gladstone said the Government had baen unable to discover any Parnellite complicity in crime. \ SirMorell McKenzie has completed : his report on the illness of the late : Emperor Frederick, and Is awaiting the Emperor William's permission to ; publish it. j The remainder of the resolutions of ; the Imperial Defence Bill have been ' passed in the House of Commons. ' At the request of Mr Parnell. Mr Labouchere and Sir J, N. McKenna withdrew their amendments to the • Bill. The Bill will be committed on i Monday. Washington, July 24. It is unlikely that the Senate will consider the Tariff Bill this sessian owing to the opposition displayed by the Republican party. Berlin, July 24. The Czar and Czarina were enter tained at breakfast on the Royal yacht Hohengollern and afterwards inspected the squadron. The farewell between their Imperial Highness and the Emperor William was of a most cordial nature, the latter repeatedly ' thanking them for their visit. Sofia. July 25. A Russian plot to dethrone Prince Ferdinand has been discovered at Rustchuk.