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By ELBOTIUa TELSSQRAPH—aOPrHIQHT,! [Sbeoiaii to Press Association.] , \ : A . NEW STEAMER. ' ' LONDON, June 26.
The P. and O. liner Sumatra was launched to-day.
MUSICAL.
Mr Foster, of Trinity Musical College, sails by the Ormuz to examine the centreß in Australia. He will begin the work in September. AN AGENT-GENERALSHIP. Surprise has been expressed at the rumoured refusal of Sir J.^ Forrest to appoint Sir W. Robinson, Agent - General for West Australia without salary ,on the ground that an objectionable' precedent? would be created if, no salary were accepted for such an office. It is understood that Sir W. Robinson was prepared to accept bare expenses in the same way as Sir, R. Herbert does.
COREA.
It is rumoured in Tientsin that Japan is fortifying the Corean frontier.
A COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT.
, PARIS, June 26. France and Switzerland have arranged a commercial agreement.
RISING IN HAWAII.
WASHINGTON, June 26.
An- American schooner has left Seattle, on Puget Sound, with a cargo of arms, to assist a Royalist rising in Hawaii. •
THE SLAVE TRADE
CAIRO, June 26.
The Egyptian Government has agreed to a contention inflicting the same penalties upon. buyers of slaves as upon the sellers. THE GERMAN NAVY.
BERLIN, June 26.
In the* Bpring the Emperor will send a . squadron to the ports of France and other nations, and six warships to Kiel. SIGNOR CRISPI.
SOME, June 26.
The Chamber haß declin i to farther inquire, into the charges against Signor Crispi.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5295, 27 June 1895, Page 3
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