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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 104, 25 February 1890, Page 2

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3y Electric Telegraph.— --Copy right. C( (PEE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION). London, February 24. H.M.S. Goldfinch, which ia to replace n he Haven on the Australian station, has & )assed inspection and will go on a ten *' lays' cruise before sailing. . During a fire at the cheuical works, c jreenwieh, a thousand casks of petroleum 1 ivere burned, and great damage was donei <? A despatch from Major Pinto n dated a January 8, states that the whole* of the f Shire district is again under Portuguese r rule. . * The amendment to the address in * favour of a Parliament for Scotland was s rejected by a majority of 40. .\ ,i Wabsaw, February 24. 1 A systematic practice of baby-farming has been discovered in this city. It is al- \ Leged that 76 cases of infanticide have ( been unearthed. j Beklin. February 24. , The number of the Cartel party in the "j new Eeichstag will probably not exceed 160. They are appealing to the Clericals " and Radicals to unite against the Social- ; ists, whose poll in the Kingdom of Saxony i has increased by 87,000. Herr von Puttkammen has been returned. Sydney, February 24. Tl c man Andrews, reported to be the son of an English earl, who shot a clothier named Bartlett in l£ing-street last November, has been sentenced to death. . , Received February 25; 12.20 p.m. •London, February 24. In the House of Commons, the debate on free education was resumed by Mr J. Morley, in the absence of Mr Gladstone. He mentioned that endowments were promised to Catholic schools, but withheld from church — dissenting schools where the latter educated the children of other sects. This statement caused much comment. The despatch from Major Pinto gives only January news, and contains nothing new. ' ; . : Berlin, February 24. It is expected that the Labor Conference : promoted by the Emperor "William will assemble in April. Sofia, February 24. Bussia is demanding from the Bulgarian Government the payment of all arrears. ; ' . ;