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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 82, 4 January 1890, Page 2

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By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright* (pur United puijss association). Waksvw, January 3. A Nihilist chief, named Dierra, haa been arrested in this city. In bis possession were . found pamphlets - aud letters ' involving some of the officers of the army, London, January .2. The Rev. Charles Clark is a passenger fco Australia by the Austral. The scheme for the investment of trust. • funds in colonial stocks is almost ready j for submission- to Mr Goschen.. The statement that investors had claimed the" right to seize the railways of any defaulting colony is denied. A compositor, who, at a meeting in Hyde Park, advocated the murder of the chairman of the Metropolitan Gas, Co- ' pany, .has been committed for trial. „. Obituary — Saddler, ex-champion sculler of England. St. PetkbsburO-, January 3. ' - Thirty-two officers have been arrested on a charge of conspiracy to abolish autocracy. Rio de Janeibo, January 2. Martial law has been proclaimed throughout Brazil, and all persons suspected of hostility to the Government are instantly shot. Brussels, January 2. •It is the Palace of Hacken, two miles •from this city, which has. been burned. The damage *is estimated at ten million irancs (£400,000)*. -. Lisbon, January 3. ' King Carlos, in his speech at the opening of the Cortes, 5-aid that Portugal had the greatest claims on Africa of any nation. San Fkanc-sco, Jimuary I. - The Califomi >n Ataletic Club offer a purse for a fight between Slavin and McAulifte." * * Sydney,- January 3. A ' sensational accident occurred this evening. Aft old' three-storey hotel in Lower George street, known as the Volunteer Artillery, suddenly collapsed and fell into the street. Those who happened £p be on the lower floor escaped unhurt. There were only a few people upstairs. Among these was a barmaid, Miss Hpgan, • who was killed, and it is feared" at present that others have lost their lives. Mr Eddy, Chief Railway Commissionersails for New Zealaud on Monday. • A hundred and thirty-two thous-mdl pounds of butter was shipped to London to-day. Bbisbank, January 3. Two school -teachers, named Clayton and Smith, were drowued by the upsetting of a boat in Keppel Bay. Ai klbgurne.' January '3. The Broken Hill propriety have resolved tq incre se the number of shares to 80,000 by reducing the nominal value of each share from £2 to Bs. - The Austialasian draws a contrast between • New Zealand and Victoria in agncultui al and paatoral matters to the advantage of the former, and compli-. ments New Zealand upon her efforts in - the cau se of education*.