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THE GOVERNORSHIP OF FIJI. ANOTHER ATTEMPT ON THE CZARS LIFE. BRITISH INTERESTS IMPERILLED IN THE TRANSVAAL. THE CIVIL MARRIAGES BILL. DISASTROUS FIRE IN RUSSIA. (Per Press Association.) • London. June 21. It is probable that Sir William Macgregor, Administrator of British New Guinea, will succeed Sir J. B. Thurston as Governor of Fiji. St. Petersburg, June 22. A mine was discovered on the railway line between Orel and Vitebsk, which it is supposed was intended to demolish the Imperial train going to the Army manoeuvres. Pretoria, June 22. President Kruger insists that the legal rights of the Transvaal must be maintained, and threatens that if the British Government interferes British interests in the Republic will be seriously affected. Nine warehouses iu Finsburg were gutted by five, the damage being estimated at £150,000. The fact of the telegraph wires becoming red hot and falling to the ground was fraught with considerable danger. Buda Pesth, June 22. The Hungarian Upper House, by a majority of four votes, approved of the Civil Marriages Bill.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 347, 23 June 1894, Page 2
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