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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 86, 7 January 1888, Page 2

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FLOODS IN SHANGHAI. . . GEEAT LOSS OF- LIFE. EXTERMINATING BABBITS. ENGLISH POLITICS. (PEB UNITED KRESS ASSOCIATION.) LiOMDON, January 5^ The qnantity of wheat afloat;, for the TTfilted Kingdom is 1,463,00Q q\ia?teri. , The. American, risible supply' is forty* /fear and~a half million bushels. '"" :i It is expected that the Victorian loan will be 'floated, at LIO6Y > T ;;:;: ; : ; Australian wheat ex store, is unchanged.,,- Tallow— 9ooo casks in stock, 'but market flat. ..,'.-. ■ ' The Standard to»day states that M. Paul Deroulede, Chairman of the French patriotic League, forwarded the forged Bulgarian **• despatches" to the Czar. The election of a member to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Colonel Tottenham, M.P. for Winchester, took place to-day and resulted in the return of Mr Richard Mobs, Unionist, by a majority of 635 ■ over Mr P. Vanderbyl, the Liberal candidate. Shanghai, Januory 6., The river Hoang-Ho having overflowed its banks, —inundated the sur* rounding country. ■' One hundred thousand persons are reported to be drowned and' two millions have been rendered homeless and are in a state of starvation. Pabib, January 6.; Seyeral failures have occurred her* consequent on oTer»speculation in copper. The liabilities amount to 30 million francs, ; Sidney, January 6. Bowmpnt js the favorite for the Anni« Versary Handicap; Pasha and Enfilade have been scratched for this event. - The; City Corporation propose to light the parks and squares in Sydney in order to assist' in repressing larrikinism. Bbisbanb, January 6. It is asserted that the ship Georg* Thornton, which recently foundered on the Northern Coast, was overladen. The Laing-Matthews Glove „