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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 46, 25 November 1882, Page 2

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[iJY ELKCriUC TELEGRAPH. — COPYHIGHT.] EEUTEIi's TELEGRAMS. London, November 23. At a meeting of the Colonial Institute last evening, Sir Francis Dillon Bell read j a paper, in which he admitted that the ! public debts of the Australian Colonies : was abnormal. He maintained, however, that the various loans which have been contracted had been spent in reproductive public works; that statistics of commerce of the various colonies were surprising ; and that it was to England's interest to help them with her surplus capital. I he election for the vacancy in the representation of Preston in the House of Commons took place to-day, and resulted in the return of Tomlinson, who defeated Lanbuoy. The seat for Wigan, which has been vacant owing to the suspension of the writ, is now about to be filled, a fresh writ having been issued. Alexandria, November 23. The Egyptian Government has decided to leave the English Government to determine whether the evidence which has been taken by commission at Cairo criminates Arabi in the massacres which took place at Alexandria and other places, and in the burning of Alexandria.