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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 288, 10 June 1895, Page 2

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« ■ OSCAR WILDE IN PRISON. MAIL SERVICE BETWEEN LIVERPOOL AND MONTREAL. DR W. G. GRACE'S TESTIMONIAL. THE ORTON CONFESSION. I A CHINESE LOAN. MASSACRED BY PATHANS. (Per Press Association.) JLondon, June 7. At first Oscar Wilde was kept at the treadmill for six hours a day, but as his health is not good he is at present engaged in the lighter occupation of picking oakum. June 8. The Manchester Guardian states that the Canadian Pacific Company will start the first mail service between Liverpool aud Montreal next summer, for which ' the British Government have granted a j subsidy of i.'00,000. The steamers will i be similar to the best Cnnard liners, aud 1 will be ordered immediate^'. The Daily Telegraph has opened a shilling testimonial to Dr W. G. Grace, heading the same with a 2000-shilliug subscription. Many large public subscriptions have been received, and the paper urt/es the Australian colonists to subscribe. A marriage has been arranged between the Duke of Argyll and Miss McNeill, one of the Maids of Honour. Lord Balcarrcs has been elected to fill the vacant scat for Chorlcy in the House of Commons, caused by the death of Lieut. -General Feildiug. Ortou, in his further confession, states that each step he advanced helped him in others. Lady Tichborne and the members of the family, in testing bis memory, supplied him with further foundation for his claims to the estates. He admits that the sole basis for the deception consisted of his talks with Bogle, Sladc, and others in Sydney and Wagga, which enabled him to meet the questions put by the family. It is believed that a Chinese 4 per cent, loau of 400,000,000 francs, with a Russian guarantee, will shortly be issued in Paris. Constantinople, June 9. The Sultan has dismissed the Grand Vizier and appointed Turkhau Pasha, President of the Armenian Commission, as Foreign Minister. Calcutta, Juuc 9. The Pathans have killed Lieutenaut Homo, of the Engineers, and seven Sepoj-s in a lonely camp in the Zhob Valley.