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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 35, 19 September 1891, Page 2

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CHINISE RIOTING. " THE HOLT COAT." WONDERFUL MIRACLES. # Received, September 19, 10.25 a.m. London, September 17. The Shipping Federation are supplying labour to the Carron and Hermitage at "Warping wharves. Thorpe of Brisbane, a defaulter, who was arrested on a charge of heavy embezzlements, has been sentenced to 10 years. Colonel Esmond, who took up Stuart Cumberland's challenge for £100 to' prove the existence of occult influences, now (Hectares the " Mahatmas " forbids the contest. Tlbe Times considers the success of the N.S.W. loan satisfactory, and evidence of returning confidence in the investing public. The Standard on the other hand asserts the Joan was not genuinely subscribed, and the public will not encourage farther colonial borrowing at present The Daily News thinks reception of the loan very a sigmficent warning. The Daily Telegraph only expected three millions "to be subscribed. The loan is -to be paid over by September 25, under discount of 2\ per cent. Hong Kong, Sept. 18. It is believed a rebellion in the Yang tse Kiang districts is imminent. Many seizures of arms and dynamite have been made. Newton, a solicitor, has been sentenced to six months 1 imprisonment for abduction. Ottawa, Sept. 18. The order to call out the militia in consequence of the lumbermen's strike is withdrawn. Paeis, September 17. The Chilian cruiser Presidente Pinto surrendered at Havre to the representatives of the Junta. The French are furious at the German Emperor's speech at Erfurt, in which he sneered at Napoleon, and accuse him of reviling France for the purpose of hast* emng the revanche. September 18. A Russian loan of five hundred million francs will be issued on October 29 at a minimum of 79. M. Ribot in a note to the Chinese Government, insists on the urgent necessity of upholding life and property in China. Washington, September 18. The National party in Hawaii, warn the United States authorities that England is planning the annexation of the islands with the connivance of the Queen. Hong Kong, September 17. The Chinese authorities have hanged six of the rioters at Tchang and dismissed the mandarins who neglected their duty and made no attempt to check the mob. The Powers, however, doubting the Government's ability to suppress the outrages, have reinforced their fleets. Berlin, September 17. An international Exhibition is projected to be held here in 1895. September 18. A million pilgrims have visited Treyes. Roman Catholic journals are relating miracles, which are alleged to haye been worked through the agency of the "Holy Coat." The lame are said to walk, and blind made to see. New York, September 17. The Democratic Convention of the State of New York denounces Senator Sherman's silver law. Washington, September 18. Phylloxera has been discovered in America on grafted yines. Vienna, September 18. The tunnel on the Styrian railway, near Triesta, collapsed, and 52 workmen were entombed, all of whom, it is feared, have perished. Twenty dead bodies have been recovered. Mat>rtd. September 18. Four thousand cattle, which had been sent in to attend a fair at Oonsuegra, perisued iv the tloods. The people are suf-

fering the greatest hardships in the inundated districts. Van loads of dead are buried in trenches, one service only being" held over each batch. A thousand bodies have been recovered . at Consuugra. Storms have occasioned immense loss throughout Spain.