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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 46, 20 August 1894, Page 2

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ENGLISH POLITICS. MISS KATE MARSDEN. THE PLANET MARS HAS NO ATMOSPHERE | Per Press Association.] London, August 18. Impartial reports indicate that Ireland is not disposed to support the Nationalists agitation for a renewal of violence. Referring to the Costa Rica incident, the St. James Gazette considers that Lord Rosebery has not taken a sufficiently firm stand or displayed an attitude that would prove to colonists that direct insults to the British flag would be quickly resented. It is believed that there are fair prospects of a trade between England and New South Wales with regard to the export of rabbits, especially if the rabbits are boiled and shipped in January and February. The Chief Secretary for Ireland states that the Government will deal with the evicted tenants next session. The Daily News asserts that part of a large schema is the revision of judicial rents, and that the English Radicals are much annoyed, and consider such as • bar to the carry ouc of the Newcastle programme Kate Marsden denies the charges in connection with the Siberian Com mission, and threatens an action for damages against the Secretary of the Committee of Investigation. The Secretary reiterates the charges, and declines to withdraw anything. It has been reported that Lord Dnfferiu, British Ambassador in Paris, has been instructed to inform the French Governineni that Great Britain will not assent to the Franco-Congolese treaty in its present form. In the House of Commons, Sir Edward Grey, Political Secretary to the Foreign office confirmed the rumour, and said he hoped the matter would be amicably settled. Washington, August 18. Professor Campbell, of the Lick Observatory, declares that Mars has no atmo sphere. Pretoria. August 18. The Boers have imprisoned Chief Maisbnch, of Znutspankey, rind 200 of his followers.