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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 39, 16 September 1890, Page 4

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' L.P3B UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. J ... ". -Auckland, September 15. Cardinal Newman died at Edgbaston, near Birmingham, on August 1 1 th, from „ pneumonia. He became ill on the Saturday previous, when he had a severe chill, and passed into a comatose state on Sunday, remaining unconscious until death. The-'Times says :— A great man has passed away, and a great link with the past has been broken. In the obseuYity of his almost private home the Eaost interesting chapter in our history- closed with his death. The remains^ laid in -state in the oratory of St Phillip until Tuesday ■ the 19tb, when the funeral took place. There were special services in all the Catholic Churches for the dead Cardinal, on Sunday, the 17th. At Hawarden, Mr Gladstone read the lessons. Cardinal Manning delivered a funeral oration in the Broinpton Oratory on Wednesday. The Rev. -Mr Maasie, the American Episcopalian pastor -of Paris," declined j to make special, mention of the Cardinal's death .^aying he could never forgifß' Newman's secession-. 'JL'nVGefniaßf Imperial yacht, with the Emperor William and his brother Heury on board, arrived at Osborne at 10 a.m. on August 3rd. . ' One of the results of the interview at Osborne between the Queen, the Emperor, o the Priuce of \\ ales, and Lord {Salisbury is the withdrawal. of the candidature of Prince Waidemar for the Bulgarian throne. The protest of the King of Greece notably influenced this decision. The London Post points to a project of:the Kaiser to obtain the Czar's assent to another Berlin Conference, aiming at a general European peace compact, implying the hmitatioa of araiajmeuts. Jobjn Boyle O'Keilly, editor cf the Boston Pilot, and orator and poet, was .found dead, in his residence at Boston, August 10,. supposed by an overdose of chloral taken to overcome insomnia. O'Heiliy was one of those who was in -the Fenian^ movement in Ireianrtin the Mxti'.s, aud was sen-tenced-to twenty years' transportation, from which }ie and otbeis escaped, after four jeais' aeivitude, by a barque sentrfroin America for that purpose. -- Theeseape was planned in the United States by Thomas IJ.1 J . Desnxmti, Johji BVe->lan, aud John Devoy. In niore thau; half the railroad stations here, says a Calcutta despatch «f August 9, huge placards are disjilayed; warning travellers against accepting hospitality from the natives, or pun-basing 1 drinks or edibles of any kind. Organised -bands infest liiri stati' ns pc idling poisi-ned fruit, c»ktji», driiirva, &c., to travelieia Tbe inhabitants of "the villages rob and plunder those whom they receive as guß^ts. The uiauiu for such crimes is spreading. - The Committee of the Servian, Pro-. greßsist PA<»y, .who attended the banquet, at Topolu on August I.9th, were *ill poirtbried with arsenic, placed in the food, it is supposed, by their 2 oKbieal opponents^