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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 210, 9 March 1896, Page 2

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CABLES. EXPRESS DERAILED AT PETERSBOROUGH. YALE UNIVERSITY TO COMPETE AT HENLEY REGATTA. RUSSIAN PACIFIC SQUADRONS. SLAVERY IN MADAGASCAR. GERMANY AND ENGLAND. EVACUATION OF EGYPT BY THE BRITISH. (Per Press Association'! . London. March 8. A portion of the Leeds Express was derailed at Peterborough. Two persons were killed and five injured. Yale University will send a crew to compete at the Henley Regatta. The enormous strength of the Russian Pacific squadron is attracting general attention. The Cairo correspondent of the Times says the recent discussion of the evacuation of Egypt by the British has caused excitement among the natives and elicited a strong expression of attachment to the British. The Southern Star Goldraiuing Co. of Hauraki, with a capital of .£600,000 is issuing half the amount to the public. Calcutta, March 8. The Indian Government lias deposed the chief of the Kiang district on the Upper Mekong, for refusing to recognise British authority. Capetown, March 8. The Portuguese garrison at Delagoa Bay has been increased. Paris, March 8. The French Colonial Committee is in favor of abolishing slavery in MadauasVcknna, March 8. Count Goluchoaski, Minister of Foreign Affairs is on a visit to Prince Hohenlnhe. The German Chancellor, Fremdendenblatt, expresses a hope he will he able to remove the friction between Germany and England. Berlin, March 7. A fire is raging in a colliery in Kaltowitfi, Silesia. So far the death list totals 71. Ottawa, March 6. Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Premier of the Dominion, and Mr Sand ford Fleming, of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, will bo the Canadian repreHcntatibes to the Imperial Cable Conference.