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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 115, 4 April 1889, Page 2

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By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright JPER UNITKD PKESS ASSOCIATION.^ London, April!. It was Piince Jerome and not Prince Victor Napoleon who was on board t ie mail boat crossing the Strait of Dover when the collision oo rurred. The vessel was cut in two close to Prra'.'fl Jerome's cabin, and he had an extremely narrow escape. An attendant was drowned, but tne Prince himself got off with a few slight bruises. Prince Jerome was on his.way to Eu gland incognito, to consult the Empress Eugenic about the coming .elections. " • : ■' The financial News assails the New i Zealand Harbour Boards on Abe ground of omission to publish accounts. It particularly ridicules the Wai'rba: Board. Allusions to the late John Bright from the pulpit were universal in th«xhurches yesterday. Besides Father McFadden, seventeen men and two women have been committed for trial for complicity in the murder of Inspector Martin, at Gweedore. Mr Albert Bright stands for the vacancy in the Birmingham representation in the Unionist interest. He is not likely to be opposed. , The Sugar Convention Bill will be submitted to the House of Commons for discussion early next week. Jem Smith, having met with an accident, it is considered unlikely that the fight arranged between him aud Charlie Mitchell will now take place. April 2. The amendment moved by William Randal Creiner, member for Badgerstou (Shoreditch), objecting to the increase of the navy, was negatived by 171. A motion approving of the increase was then passed. Count Herbert Bismarck, who i 9 visitmg England, professes to fully agree with Lord Salisbury on the Colonial Question. The Tory Council of Birmingham has asked Lord Barvdolph Churchill tn succeed the late John Bright The Government of Morocco has agreed to pay an indemnity to Great Britian for the murder of an Englishman, aud to permit repairs to the cable to proceed. Home, April 1 A bomb was thrown among the congregation m the Church of San Carlo yesterday, but exploded without doing any harm. Vienna. April 1 It is reported that the Emperor of Austria is indisposed. Washington* April 1. The senate has confirmed the appointment of Mr Ei Lincoln as Minister to England. M. Ha lstend's -nomination to the post of American Minister at Berlin was rejected by the Senate, on account of his alleged an ti- German; tendencies'. . Government Has ordered the Alert to Honolulu the Eichmonl, Eiver Plate Adams and Marsland to proceed to Samoa. President Harrison has been assured by Queen Victoria of her sympathy with the Umte<j States in the disaster which has befallen its navy. Berlin, April I. The German cruisers Sperber and Alex- : andra have been ordered to Samoa to replace those lost in the recent gales. The German press hove the magnanimous conduct of vi ataffa, in sending his men to the assistance of the Qls* durinir the hurricane at Samba, will put an end to the difficulty. Cairo, \pril 1. El Senoussi, the Mahcli's rival, is re ported to be withiu oue day's march of Khartoum. Paris, April 2. M. Tizard, French Premier has dismissed M. Bouchtr. Procurer- Geueial of the Court of Appeal, for declining to prosecute Boulanger. ir'Er.GRAPBi April 2. Queen Natalie has offered not to meddle with politics or interfere with her son> education if she is allowed to live in Belgrade. St Petersburg, April 2. The Shah of Persia has grauted the demands at Russia to be allowed to build a. railway to that country. :