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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 133, 3 May 1890, Page 2

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». . ... . ■ ■ By Electric Telegraph.—^Copyright |PKE tINITKD PRESS ASSOCIATION. { ' LoNSeKr April 30. Queen Victoria, who has been on a viait to Aix les Bainea for the benefit of her health, has returned to Eogland and taken up her residence at Windsor Uastle. Dr Barry, speaking at a dinner given at King's College, said his experience in Australia had been a very bitter one. and he found the people to be very crude. Sir Halliday Macartney, English Secretary to the Chinese Envoy, in the course of an iterview to-day said that China insisted on being placed on an equal status with the other Powers, and asserted that an agreement with Australia would havebeen concluded had it not been for ten days' delay occasioned by Six John! Walsham, British Minister at Pekis. Mr 8. H, Parker had an interview with ; Mr Gladstone with reference to; the West- : crn Australian Enabhng Bill. Mr Gladstone expressed himself warmly interested j in the subject, but admitted that the] question of reserving territory presented j some difficulty. ' In the House of Commons to-day the Deceased Wife's Sister BUI passed the second reading by a majority of 67. Speaking during the debate, Sir James Fergusson said that the agitation in Adelaide in favour of the Bill was entirely artificial and fictitious, and was contrary to the whole religious opinion, of the colony. '•».". Messrs Penny and Heyman, a firm in Blenheim, New Zealand, have made a present of a quantity of frozen mutton and butter to Sir H. : A. Isaacs, the ' Lord Mayor of London. Mr Gibnon, patentee of a locomotive link motion, has sailed for Melbourne, where he expects that his patent will receive a lair trial. A syndicate has already guaranteed that the patent shall be tried on the Victorian railways. Sporting critics are pleased with the quality of new blood contained in the* Australian Eleven. . . Paws, April 30 The Marquis Mores, who was arrested on a charge of inciting the army to join the anarohists, had letters in hispoasession which will implicate the Due de Luy nes in a Royalist conspiracy, which watt to take action dunag the labour celebrations. A warrant has been issued for his arrest. Latest news from. Dahomey is to the' effect that the town of Whydah. has been shelled by the French. , The supporters of Boulanger urge him to return to Pans, in order to take port in the labour celebrations. Leading supporters of General Bou* langer have left town fearing they would be arrested. May 1. The Government have discovered the Anarchist stock of iron -tipped bludgeons and revolvers which were secreted in the city. Fourteen hundred street hawkers have been arrested on a charge of being connected with the Anarchists. Louise Michel, who recently delivered a seditious speech to the Anarohists ad vocating that dynamite was essential to the attainment of their objects, has been arrested. ' New Yobs, May 1. Arthur Wood, a well-known swimmer, has announced his intention of attemptlag to swim the rapids at Niagara Falls.