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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 267, 19 March 1894, Page 2

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HORRIBLE DEATH OF SOME RUSSIAN WORKMEN. BALFOUR BEFORE THE COURT. MARTIAL LAW IN HAWAII. DISESTABLISHMENT OF THE WELSH CHURCH. ; (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. London. Vixrch 18. I Mr Reid had an interview with the Minister for War and Generals Wood and Buller, who all approve of advising • the Indian authorities to consider the proposals for cold storage. Sir W. V. Harcourt's promise to force on the Bill for the Disestablishment oiJ the Welsh Church lias satisfied then Welsh members. Pahis, March 18. The French Chamber has passed a vote of six thousand pounds to establish a Ministry for the colonies. Fifteen thousand file workers in Mar seilles have struck work in an endeavour to reduce the daily hours of labor to ten, RoMF, Vi*iC'« 17. Cardinal Rampolla, Secretary of State to His Holiness the Pope, says that the Vatican is gratified at Lord Rosebary's succession to the Premiership of England, and hopes it will lead to the establishxnent of diplomatic relations with England. I St. Pktkbsbcbg. March 17 1 Through the explosion of a boiler in a mine at Ekaterinoslav, in South Russia, fifteen men were killed. They met a horrible death, being boiled to a pulp. Bukhos ATBhS, Vl arch 16 The Salta Court has dismissed the first charge against Jabez S. Balfour, for abscondiug from England with .£20,000. He is to be tried on sixteen other charges. San F.BANcrsco. February 16 Martial law has been proclaimed in I Hawaii, with the view of preventing the 1 Quei-n from being restored to the throne.