Cable Brevities
Mr Perceval. Agent-General for New Zealand, is making enquiries in London with regard to a reduction in the passage money lo New Zealand for persons who intend to emigrate to the colony and take up farming pursuits. The Dnke of Devonshire was married yesterday, in London, to the Dowager Duchess of Manchester. Mr W. T. Stead has made further and more sensational attacks on Sir Chas. Dilke in the Review of Reviews. The Daily News says that nothing further will be heard of the Russian expedition to the Pamirs under Capt. Yonoff if Mr Gladstone gives proof that his i* a generous policy, the first proof being to permit Russia to posi s< tbe head waters of the Oxus. Marion Disney, in letters to the Daily News, gives heartrending scenes attending the employment of Kanaka labor. She nlleges that the Islanders have to submit to horrible treatment, and that their condition is worse lhan thai of American slaves. The Chinese Government hare strongly protested to the Russian Government against the occupation of the Pamirs, alleging that it is a breach of treaty-
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 26, 18 August 1892, Page 3
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184Gable Brevities Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 26, 18 August 1892, Page 3
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