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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 24, 7 August 1888, Page 2

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By Electric Telegraph — Copyright. [ PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. | London August 6. Wheat — English samples show strong tone, prioe unchanged ; Australian, on Bpot, 37 s ; New Zealand, long berried, 36s 9d. I The Quakers intend sending a delegate to the Australian colonies to advocate the principles of peace. Four men haye heen killed by an explosion of fireworks at LandelTs Factory, j Wandaworth. I The English Government has asked the i American authorities to grant a respite j to the murderer Maxwell. The Parnell inquiry will commence in the first week m November. The Right Rev Dr Stubbs, Bishop of Chester, has been translated to the See of Oxford. In the House of Commons, an attempt was made to revive the HughesHaliett scandal on a motien for the expulsion of the member for Rochester from the House, but the Chairman of Committee declined to allow the motion to be tabled. Berlin, August 6. The Nord Deutsche states that the alleged report by Bismarck on the subject the Battenburg betrothal, published in a Parisian journul, is a forgery. Suakim, August 6. Intelligence has reached here to the effect that the Abyssinian force was defeated by the dervishes, with heavy loss, near Guilbat. Paris, August 6. The navvies' strike is extending to other branches of labour, and collisions with the police hare been frequent. The annexation of Zulla by Italy is considered a direct insult to France, who claims it by virtue of a treaty with Abyssinia. Washington, August 4. A double sculling match took place at Saratogo for the Championship of the World. Gaudaur and Mackay were the victors, defeating Teemer and Hainm. < It is asserted that subsidised steamships are importing hordes of Chinese into Canadian territory, who afterwards cross the American border. Nbw Yobk, Aujjust 4. Eighteen persons were killed and several injured in a fire in Bowery street yesterday." Constantinople, August 6. Owing to the failure of the Montene grain harvest, 40,000 persons have been rendered destitute and entirely depen* dent on charity. The Sultan has presented the Emperor William of Germany with a gold casket studded with brilliants. Sydney, August 6. There is little hepe of settling the shippmg difficulty. The owners have merely acknowledged the receipt of the last letter from the Union regretting the position taken up by the latter.