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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 68, 5 December 1891, Page 2

THE LATEST.

(Received December 5, 10.55 a.m.) London, December 4, Princo George is convalescent, and an official bulletin has been issued to that effect. The Chancellor of the Exchequer proposes that when the issue of pound notes by the Bank of England reaches.fifty raillions, any additional issue shall be based on gold only. The Cambridge Uniyersity authorities sentenced a girl of good character to a fortnight's imprisonment for being in company with an undergraduate. The legal advisers of the Duke of Orleans allege Mr Armstrong can only proceed in the Dublin courts for crim con. The. suspension of the Standard Bank in Melbourne has caused intense surprise in the city. There are five hundred shareholders, and nearly three hundred thousand pounds of deposits in London. The Shanghai correspondent *bf the Times telegraphs that the Consuls at Pekin have applied for naval protection, the populace being hostile. The rebels are reported to have been defeated in the East and North, and 600 of them killed. Sir J. "Walsham, British Minister at Pekin, telegraphs that no Europeans were killed in the Mongolian revolt. New York, December 4. Five thousand persons are reported to have died of starvation and disease caused by the prolonged draught, in Cheapas, district of Guatemala., . . Capetown, December 4.~ Lobenzwella, King of Matabele Land, has ceded rights of settlements throughout his dominion to the British South Afnca Company. Zanzibar, December 4. „?' News has reached here that" Emih Pasha has reached Lake Nyanza where he was welcomed by 9000'natiyes. ■ Beblin, December 4. It is believed in Berlin that Emm Pasha will be reinstated m his former position in Wadelui. : \ Mastebton, This Day. | At the banquet to the Ministeis and members of the Liberal party last night at Eketahuna, fifty persons were present. After supper speeches were delivered by the Minister of Justice, T. L. Buick and: A. IT. Hogg, M.H.HI. - s '