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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 296, 19 June 1895, Page 2

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CABLES. RAILWAY CONFERENCE IN ENGLAND. AUSTRIAN MINISTRY TO RESIGN. \ DEATH OF LORD COLIN CAMPBELL. (Per Press Association). Lokdon, June 18. The new Chinese loan will be issued iv Paris on the 27th. The M.C.C. has subscribed 200 guineas to the Grace National Fund. The Prince of Wales opens the Railway Conference on June 26. The Agents General will represent the Colonies. Mr Eddy and Mr Carrnthers will, in addition, represent New South Wales and New Zealand. After four days of festivities nine days will be devoted to business. Vienna, June 17. The Austrian Ministry is expected to resign in consequence of the withdrawal of the support of the German section of the Liberals owing to a dispute over the Education vote. Bombay, June 17. Obituary— Lord Colin Campbell. Lisbon, June 18. Owing to the workmen leaving the braziers off, the Chamber of Deputies, along witb the archives, have been destroyed by fire. Paris, June 18. The Czar's embassy, when presenting President Faure with tbe order of St. Andrew, referred to the happy relations existiug between France and Russia, but made no allusion to the alliance. New York, June 17. The Haarlem Ship Canal, connecting the Hudson river with Long Island and passing round Northern New York, was opened to-day. The ceremony was an imposing one. The procession of ships was four miles long.