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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 90, 5 February 1889, Page 2

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By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright, (P.;a UNITED PKKSS ASSOCIATION) .London, February 3. Speaking at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Sir J. Fergusaon said its affairs were in a prosperous state. Three-fourths of the business was now done with Australia and two-thirds of the capital was held in England. Mr E. Stanhope, Secretary of State for War, has issued instructions forbidding strangers to be allowed to iappoct the defences of the United Kingdom. Mr Balfour, speaking at Dublin, said O'Brien alone was answerable if he determined to injure his health by refusing to wear the prison garb. Mr Plimsoll is organising a national protest against the policy of coercion in Ireland. Vienna, February 3. The Archduke Charles has renounced the succession in favour of his eldest son Charles, and not in favour of Prince Ferdinand, as at first reported. February 4. Mr A. J. Balfour, Secretary for Ireland, in a speech at Dublin, claimed that outrages and boycott! )g in Ireland had greatly decreased under the present Administration, and he hoped shortly to proceed with the extension of a drainage system, and also to assist in the extension of railways with a view to developing the fisheries. Father McFadden, for whom the police have been searching for some time, was arrested yesterday at Gweedore, where he has been conducting mass. The arrest toook place immediately mass was over, and the congregation desperately resisted the revereced geatleman being taken into custody. In the struggle Inspector Martin, of the Police Force was killed. Paris, February 2. The Chamber of Deputies rejected a modon of urgency for the Bill introducing the system of scrutiu d'arrondissement, Premier Floquet opposing it, '■ ■ Received February 5, 1 p.m. Mklbodbnk, This Day. During the glove fight between Slavin and Burke, the police rushed j the ring, and prevented it being brought to a termination. Slavin will probably be declared the winner. Correction.— lt is the woollen manufacturers of Canada, not of England, who are urging the Government to increase the duty on imported goods.