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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2119, 13 October 1885, Page 2

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London, October 4. Mr W. E. Gladstone, speaking with reference to the position of the Christian population in the Balkan Provinces, advises them to imitate the moderate attitude assumed by the Powers in regard to matters in dispute as the best means of securing a favorable settlement. A letter published in truth from Mr G, Augustus Sala, who is now visiting the Australian Colonies, indicates that Mr Sala lias an ambition to become a member of the House of Commons, Mr Sala describes the members of the Melbourne YorickOlubas a "gang of cadß," Subscription lists are about to be opened here with the object of raising funds to provide a new equipment for Mr H. 0, Forbes, the explorer, who was despatched te New Guinea by the Royal Geographical Society, but who lost his outfit while en route at Thursday Island, through an accident to the vepfe! jn which it was being transferred.

The Morning Post advooates the separation of Northern and Southern Queensland. Mr Finch Hatton, one of the members for South Lincolnshire in the House of Commons, who recently visited the Australian Colonies, has asserted that the statesmen of Queensland have been robbing the Colony for the purpose of fllling'their own pockets! ': .■ The funeral service of the Earl of Shaftesbury was solemnised to-day at Westminster Abbey, but the interment took place at Dorset.