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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 290, 12 June 1895, Page 2

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THE COLONIAL TREASURER ANT^ THE PACIFIC CABLE. THE GRACE MEMORIAL. A LIBRARY FOR THE FEDERAL COUNCIL. THE KIEL CANAL FESTIVITIES. FRANCO-RUSSIAN TREATY. (Per Press Association). ' Ottawa, June 10. The Hon. J. G. Ward -will interview Sir McKenzie Bowell, Premier, and the Hon. G. E. Foster, Minister of Finance, with reference to the Canadian, New Zealand trade, and Pacific cable. London, June 10. Mr Hogan, M.P., has a question on tlit Order Paper enquiring when the committee is likely to report on Mr Huddarfc's scheme for a fast line of steamers.' Sir W. Robinson, Governor of Western Australia, in a paper read at a meeting of the Colonial Institute, said he firmly believed that the highest hopes in r«gard to the wealth of the auriferous deposits of the colony would be realised, aud some experts estimated the value cf the the output of gold as high as ninety-five and a-half million sterlng. Sir William emphasized the value of the timber resources of the colony, and predicted a splendid future for the wine growing industry. News has been received that Russia is massing troops on the Turkish frontier. The Marylebone Cricket Club has undertaken the management of a national memorial to Dr W. G, Grace. June 11. Godfrey Wilson, formerly a scholar at the Melbourne Grammar School, is fifth on the list of wranglers at Cambridge. Mr Pctherick, the well known publisher, has offered his library, containing 6000 rare books, to the Federal Council of Australasia as the nucleus of a Federal Library on condition it appoints a librarian. The donor desires to see the books temporarily placed in the Imperial Institute. Mr Gladstone leaves to day to attend the opening of the Kiel Canal. Coi'KXJIAUKN, JuilC 11. Russia being desirous to obtain a coaling station in the Baltic Sea is negotiating with Denmark for the cession of Christian's Group, three small islands twelve miles from the large island Bornholm. Paris, June 11. In the Chamber of Deputies a vote of confidence in M. Hanotaux, Foreign Minister, was carried by a majority of 257 votes. This expression of confidence was obtained after the Minister had repeated the reasons given a few days ago for accepting the invitation of German Government for the French Navy to be present at the ceremony in connection with the opening of the Baltic Canal. Speaking in the Chamber of Deputies M. Ribot declared that public opinion had ratified the alliance with Russia in regard to the terms of the JupaneseChina peace treaty. M. Flourens suggested that the Government should ask Russia to assist in compelling Great Britain to evacuate Egypt. M. Ribot said that all the Government had done had been in the interests of France, aud he disdained any apology or excuse for having entered into an alliance with Russia. The Parisian press declare the terms of the Franco-Russian treaty will be published after the fetes at the opening of the Keil Canal. It is reported they embody a military convention. The Gaulais states China will allow France to occupy a port in the Pescadores, and perhaps the whole of the group, the inhabitants of which were given to assisting the Tonguin pirates.