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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 282, 4 June 1896, Page 2

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THE NEW PLYMOUTH BONDHOLDERS. (Per Press Association.) London, June 8. Excesses committed by the rebels in Nicaragua compelled the British and American warships to land marines at Cor in to to defend the English bank. General Metuta threatened to attack, tbeni, whereupon the sbips cleared for action and the General apologised. Thirteen lady students have taken mathematical honors at Cambridge University. A committee of foreign bondholders has written to Mr Chamberlain complaining of the treatment of the New Plymouth bondholders, and threatened to oppose the quotation of the next New Zealand loan on the Stock Exchange. The Hon W. P. Reeves also wrote to Mr Chamberlain, assuring him that the New Plymouth bondholders had no real grievance, and ridiculing their threats. The House of Commons by a majority of 141, declined to adjourn over the Derby day. The Committee of the Paddington Vestry strongly recommend the use of Australian hardwood for Street paving. Lord Duffevin in bidding farewell to the members of the British Chambers of Commerce who visited Paris, said tbat diplomacy was the best which would devise means of preventing the armed forces of Europe coming into conflict. Pabis. June 3. A Royalist was elected for Chalet. The Duke of Orleans did not stand. Washington, June 3. A committee of the Senate reports that New York and 26 other seaports would be at the mercy of a foreign fleet in the event of an outbreak of war. Constantinople, June 2. The Porte has oidered the despatch of thirty-five battalions for service in Crete.