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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 63, 24 November 1888, Page 3

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By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright. (PkR UWITKD PRESS Ai-SOCI .DON.) Received November 24, 1.20 p.m. London, November 23. Queen Victoria has addressed a letter of sympathy to Lady Mountmorris. Harrington declines to pay the sum of £500 in which he was fined for coutempt, by the Times-Parnell commission. The man arrested yesterday on suspicion of the Whitechapel murders, has been liberated as no evidence was forthcoming to establish his connection with the recent outrages. At Howick the Maori football team defeated the local team by a goal to a try. Australian mutton, 3f d; New Zealand muttou, 4d ; beef, unchanged. A prospectus of the New Zealand Copper Company, Nelson, has been issued, capital £150,000. The Rugby Union compels Shrewsbury and Lilly white's team, just returued from a tour of Australasia, to make affadavits that they received nothing beyond hotel and travelling expenses. Berlin, November 2'S. At the opening of the Reiclmtag the Emperor *-aid he hoped to make increas. ing efforts to secure the peace of Europe with Christian faith, and duties of Emperor to urge war even if likely to be victorious without necessary. He alluded to the friendly attitude of England in connection with the Zanzibar difficulty. Rome, November 23. The Osservatore utatea tbe Pope «ill leave- Rome if the Government of Italy further contracts the iron circle at present confining His Holiness. VVi.noa.nui, This Day. At about five thin morning a pmoner, named George Millar, on committal for mealing hides, escaped from the Wanganui gaol. At 11 o'clock one of the wardens unexpectedly landed on him about five miles from gaol, and at 12.30 the prisoner was» safe in his cell.