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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 297, 20 June 1895, Page 2

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• NEW WARSHIPS FOR JAPAN, FRANCE AND RUSSIA. • i ILLNESS OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY. . i MR GLADSTONE AND THE ( GOVERNMENT. WELSH CHURCH DISESTABLISH- \ MENT. N.Z. THREE PER CENT STOCK. (Per Press Association). London, June 18. New Zealand 3 per cent stock is quoted at a premium of 5 per cent. The Financial News advocates a Bank Assets Company to nurse the dormant assets of the Australian Banks. The Government agree to vest the Welsh Cathedral in a representative Church. To-day Mr Gladstone has terminated his standing pair with Mr Villiers, M.P. for Wolverhampton South, as he desires to keep open his mind on the disestablishment of the Welsh Church. The Timee declares that the real reason is that the veteran dislikes tbe method of the Government generally and has withdrawn his moral support;. June 19. It is officially stated Mr Gladstone has withdrawn his pair on the Welsh Church Bill and not upon the general policy ot the Government. The Standing Committee on trade decided, despite the opposition of the Government that the Factory Acts could not be made to opply to laundries. Professor Huxley's health is in a critical state. It is reported that Turkish soldiers have entered Bulgaria, and seized a road leading to PhillipopoHs. Tokio, Juno 19. The Japanese Government invites British and United States shipbuilders to tender tor the construction ot warships, on which it is proposed to spend about 1*3,000,000. Paris, June 18. President Faure, in replying to the Russian Embassy who conveyed to him the decoration of the Order of St. Andrew from the Czar, said the decoration was a new mark of sympathy, and showed that the Czar was following in the footsteps of his father. It was also to hia mind a proof of strong friendship towards France.