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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 113, 17 March 1891, Page 3

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(Per Mail Steamer at Auckland.) San Francisco, February 20. A gigantic scheme for a system of railways from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, is in process of formatibn by Jay Gould. A committee of the United States Presbyterian General Assembly was occupied for eleven days revising the ' •*• Confession of Faith." The changes i made are of great importance, but in " no way impair the integrity of the ! system or .doctrine so long held by the church. One thousand men have been engaged at New York as labourers to go to Guatemala: It is understood they are to reinforce the Guatemala Army, although it is denied that war is threatened. It is proposed in Pittsburg to construct' a canal on Lake Erie, at a cost of twenty-five million dollars. ' Master Workman Powderly, while addressing the Knights of Labour at "Taukepa on 17th February, was attacked with heart disease, and fell from his chair. He soon recovered and walked to his hotel. ■ Sarah Bernhardt narrowly escaped being poisoned at Hoffman House, New York, on the 17th of February, by eating, canned mushrooms. She is now out of danger. The consideration of the Nicaragua Canal matter caused an exceedingly warm debate in the Senate on 1 6th 'of February, and an adjournment was carried to prevent further ill-feeling. Twenty-five million dollars worth "" of property will be sold in New York j in -March for unpaid taxes and asses- I ■ sments, running back over a quarter j , of a century. Washington and British Columbia have been united by railway. This is the first link by rail between the United States and British America thie side of the Missouri River.