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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 7, 2 July 1889, Page 2

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■ • By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright jPEK UNITED PKKSS ASSOCIATION. [ ; London, June 29. A great indignation meeting of. Delagoa Buy liailway shareholders, held n London, demanded that the" Governnent should insist that Portugal be com)elled to repay the old three million debt., [t is considered 'lhat the present dispute anil lead to Portuguese stock being struck >ff the Stock Exchange quotationsInformation has reached here that the Portuguese Government have torn up a portion of the permanent way of Delejoa Bay Eailway, and that an Englshman", a driver of a locomotive, has seen fired at. The English residents deuand that- assistance should be sent. The hierarchy of Ireland are unamnous in expressions of regret that Archbishop Walsh's suggestion for arbitration m the land question was not adopted. In the House of Commons Mr Goschen has introduced a Bill providing for the Hdthdrawal of all light weight sovereigns which we're issued prior to her Majesty's iscension to the throne. Carlotta Patti, sister to Adehna Pafcti, iied to day. TheE.M.S. Kimutaka arrived all well it Plymonth yesterday. Her cargo of frozen meat is m splendid condition. Meadows, the Australian light-weight qow in America, issues a challenge to fight anyone in the world for the light weight championship. In the House of Commons on Monday Baron de Worms will be asked what steps the Imperial Government intend to take with, reference to Chinese emigration to the Australian. Colonies. The Jockey Club has awarded Sir Gv. Chetwynd a farthing damages, and ordered him to pay his own costs. The New Zealand Shipping Company's Aorangi left Plymouth for New Zealand yesterday. Mr Gladstone, in an article in the Nineteenth Century, compares tlie state of Ireland to the Eeign of Terror during the French Eevolution. He avers that British tyranny, cruelty and illegality su pass even the conduct of the French leaders during that sanguinary period, During the performance at the Alhambra last eyenmg the dress of one of the dancers caught fire, and before it was extinguished the unfortunate girl was severely burned. A panic took place among the audience, and several persons received severe but not fatal injuries. St Petersburg, June 29. The journal de St. Petersbur/r agrees with Count Kalnoky's claim that the independence of the Balkan States should he respected, and approves the policy of the Servian Regents with a hope that they will restore the intimate union with Eussia which once existed, Paris, June 29. The Chamber of Deputies^ has, oh an immense majority, authorised* the liquidator of the old Panama Canal Company to raise sufficient capital to ensure the preservation of the work already done in connection with the Canal. Paeis, June 29. In the Senate to-day Signor Oriapi, the Premier, said that the Vatican ought to recognise that the temporal power of the Pope perishes for ever instead of hoping for an interyention of foreign power. Caiko, ») une 29. Eight thousand dervishes are threatening Wady Haifa, and in conseouencstrong reinforcements have been dese patched.