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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 295, 18 June 1895, Page 2

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THE UGANDA IIAILWAY. NEW GOVERNOR OF N.S.W. ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. A SUICIDE CLUB. THE RUSSO-CHINESE ALLIANCE. | Per Press Association] London, June 17. The Times states that the name of the now Governor of New South Wales will probably be announced in a day or two. Tho proposal to pay the British ■East African Company L 90.000 as a retiring settlement was discussed in tho House of Commons last night, the vote being agreed to by a majority of 198 votes, it having been arranged that the ConsulGeneral in Zanzibar will administer tho East Africa protectorate. The construction of a railway to Uganda is to be commenced without dc-liy. Viscount Hampden, son of ex- Speaker 33 rand, has been appointed Governor of New South Wales. The Kaiser sent the Royal Dragoons, of which he is Honorary Colonel, a wreath in memory of the Battle of Waterloo. The Foreign Minister of Bulgaria has notified the Embassies of the European Powers that popular feeiing i.s so strong against Turkish misrule in Macedonia that it may compel the despatch of a Bulgarian army into the couutry. Sir Edward Grey, Parliamentary Secretary for the Foreign Oifice, in reply to a question, said the Government understood that no treaty had been concluded by China giving Russia a railway and a port in Chinese territory. The Renmark Company intend to spend au additional £o per acre, and devote a large area to lucerne, alfalfa and other fodders with whicii to supply squatters. Nbw York, J uue 17. A suicide club lias beeii discovered in this city. Five members committed sui« eide this year alone. Paris, June 15. The Egyptian Committee in Paris, in a manifesto just issued, appeals to the Government to negotiate with the other Powers with the view of declaring the neutrality ofthe entire Nile Baain.