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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 143, 27 May 1890, Page 3

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■ — ♦ - — : . . '. {General Summary by the Mariposa.) Fbisco, May 3. . It is well-known in court oircles here, that Qut>en Victoria's health is aerioualy imp riied he is suffui ing from incurable dropsy, which Is ouly firevented from taking a malignant orm. by medical skill. Twenty known survivors of the Balaclava charge Were found in a workhouse in Loudon recently, most of them in a pitiably destitute con- : dition. Public subscriptions for their relief showed a total result of only £24. At the conclusion of a hull fight at Guadeloupe on April 20th, a section of the amphitheatre collapsed, throwing thousands of the spectators to. the ground. Hundreds bruised by the fall, were trampled ou, and their sufferings intensified, but, strange to say no lives were lost. The labour movement is occasion' ing such wholesale changes in the location of troops in the AustrianEmpire that the military condition of the country resembles a time of war. The major portion of the Cracow garrison is distributed through the Ostraw district. Five sisters named Domoerioff, the youngest 19 years of age, committed auicide at Moscow on April 24. The ashes found in the apartment -showed that they had burned a number of papers before 'taking their lives ltis believed thact fears of arrest as Nihilists led to self murder. Sweden has granted Dr. Frithi of Nansen, 20,000 crowns, in support of his proposed expedition of discovery to the North Pole. The expedition vill start in February, 1892, and pas sing through the Suez Canal will reaoh Behring Straits in July. A new whaler is being built for the purpose* Only 12 Bailors and four scientists will • start pn thiß expedition. Five year's .etock of provisions will be carried. Prince Bismarck, speaking to a deputation, declared with some W emotion that he would gladly have remained m office if the Emperor had eo desired. L Disputes bftw^en England and Portugal anr again approaching a crisis. The delays of the Portugese Government and the aggressive actions of its agents in Mozambique are ex- . hausting British patience. Two stern wheel Steamers are being built by the English for an expedition on the --hire River, to be armed with batteries of Hotchkiss guns. Should Portugal persist in her policy of procrastination a demand will be made up on her for payment of £2,500,000 due to England since the Peninsular War. when Portugal was saved by Wellington from annihilation. Mrs Delia Parnell, mother of the Irish leader, writes to a New York morning^aper on April 28, contradicting the story to the effect that she ii not destitute, reiteratinar ber former statement. She wye, I would not now . bei alive but f or^the bjsnevolent people who-ha«*. ; |i«^*6^-:^^- , -'--i_iev for at my advanced age I was fast dying of fedid and stitrvation. (ForA^iMnvA^n^Aßw^^ Matter set .. -.. ....;'7.: ffao?&6^A**~''