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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 224, 27 January 1894, Page 2

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FHE AMEER OF^AFGHANISTAN. THE IMPERIAL DEFENCES. COLONIAL PRODUCE. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND AND HAWAII. I THE EGYPTIAN CRISIS. THE KHEDIVE GIVES IN. BISMARCK'S RECEPTION IN BERLIN. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Bkki.in, January 26 The Emperor has ordered a military pageant for Priuce Bismarck. Bismarck's arrival iv the city was marked by a scene of immense excitement. The European press favorably comment on the European's action. Pa ris>, January 26. News has been received that a French native force has been massacred near Timbuctoo. France pays the relations of the Italians killed ai; Aigues Mortes an indemnity of 420,000 francs. Hong Kong, January 26. I Two Chinese warships will shortly visit Australian waters. London. January 26. Mr Thomas Pyne, who was recently decorated with the order of the Star of India, will, it is understood, when visiting Afghanistan, bear an invitation to the Ameer to visit England. Sir Gerald Portal, who has just recently aarived from Zanzibar, has died from typhoid fever. A committee, consisting of members of the House of Commons and others, is being formed in London, with the object of educating public opinion for a naval defence scheme in connection with Imperial Federation, leaving the Government to prepare a scheme for submission to the colonies. The Parinh Councils Bill has been read a second time in the House of Lords, and will be committed on Thursday. Pitt, secretary of the North London Permanent and Commercial Building Society, has been arrested on a charge of embezzling .£38,000, the moneys of the society. A detachment of the Aldershot military mounted police has been ordered to Egypt. In answer to the demands of Lord Cromer tlie Khedive has published a proclamation praising the British Army and British officers. He has also ordered the Under-Secretary for War to resign. The colonial produce merchants are confident that the present is an excellent time for shipping to the English market large quantities of hydraulic pressed bran chaff and hay, but that the market is not \ favourable for unpressed sorts. Washington, Jauunrj 26. It isjreported that President Cleveland has ordered His Excellency Albert S. Willis, envoy extraordinary of the United States in Hawaii, to demand his passports unless President Dale offers a full apology for the offensive letters sent to Washington, on the subject of the crisis in Hawaii.