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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 105, 27 February 1890, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. (PEE UNITED 28888 ASSOCIATION). London, February ' 26/ j The Standard con eiders the recent statements as to the working of th« Education system will render the extension of voluntary schools- inevitable, Mr W. L. Bright, M.P, for ttoke-on-Tyne, intends to resign. The Chronicle says that Sir G< Campbell's action with reference tot the Western Australian Bill ia an insult to the oolouy. • - It is understood that Lord Hartington's Committee on Military. Affairs will reccomtnend the abolition of ifcher post of Cotmnander-in-Chief . ; : Mr Motley disclaims having; made /: any specific contract with, the Irish party. • -. .-, ■-. _.;■■•■■:'' ■ ■ Mr Chamberlain appeals to the* Nonconformist e to. repudiate Mr Morley's statement with regard t& dissenting schools. The amendment to the Address-in-' Reply, by Mr Cunningham Grahame, insisting that the question of shortening the hours of labour should be discussed at the Berlin Conference, was* •••■ rejected by a majo:ity 111. . Mr ■:■ Bradlaugh opposed it. Lord Churebill quoted the state of labour in Australia, and advised the Tories to* have more sympathy with working men. . Emm Bey has ref]ft?ed the Goyer-v norship of Eastern Soudan. Lord Tennyson is improving. Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, in the course of an interview, said h« was certain that Austrlja would eventually separate from England. . Bishop Barry, formerly Primate of 'Australia, was booted, and finally . silenced, at Lambeth Eor attacking; socialism. ; ; , The trial of the Bishop of Lincoln 1 for Bitualism is finished. Judgment' was reserved. Lisbon, Febnarv 26. : • Replying to a question in the 1 House of Commons to day, >ir James? Ferguson stated that England would agree to examine the questions sub* mitted -to the Berlin Labour Confer* enee affecting the working classes, so* far as they were in accordance with tha English law. \ £Jbw YobK, February 35. A Russian, dying at Dakota, haef confessed to a dynamite plot arranged; in 1888 to assassinate the Czar. Theconfession implicates many prominentofficials. , Beblin, February 25 The total Sooialist yote at the eleo^ tions was 920y000 > . The Daily Telegraph eulogises the* colonial Divorce Bill as embodying: the improved morality of the ago. It considers the law of England should be reformed in the same direction. . The Clerical party will dominate the new Reichstag. ;• v * ; Washington, February 25. A petition has been sent Irons America to the Czar imploring tbafr clemency may be shown to the exiles? in Siberia. •■■•■•■ BYDKET r :,F.ebrufiry'26Farmers in the Hunter River diff^ trict have lost £30,0(^?.fe^~toe flood*. The Intercolonial Frd6trade Conference, which has been sitting in Sydney* has considered the question of the extention of limits of money orders, parcels postage, and international and. intercolonial telegraph rates. A'BBIrAiDK, Febroary 26.. The missing steamer Bucephalus, which ran short of coal and provisions has been picked up. MEiBOtJfKNE, February 26. An outbreak of typhoid fever has occurred among the domestics; of Govarnment House r The Earl of Bojie toun and family remain at the Governor's summer residence, Mount Macedon. . -^ -^- v ■'■,'■' Received February 27, 12.20 p.m; Madkeb, February 28. King Alfonso r who was recendy suffer--ing from attacks of sync«pe r has had ft very serious relapse. The Socialists broke up an audience at Bishop Barry 'a lecture on and Trade," in consequence of hi« remarks levelled at Sooialwm/ ,