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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 95, 9 February 1892, Page 2

THE LATEST.

(Received, February 9, 10.30 a.m.) London, February 8. Tenders for the Western Australian loan of £250,000 at 4 per cent, with a minimum of 99, were opened to-day. The amount subscribed was only £228,000, but the London and Westminster Bank has taken the balance at the minimum. Twenty-two thousand additional engineers have gone out on strike. Calcutta, February 8. The population of the whole of India, as shown by the late census, is two hundred and eighty-eight millions. Vienna, February 8. The Archduke Franz Salyator is suffering from influenza. Berlin, February 8. Count Limburg Stirum has been dismissed from the German service for publicly criticising the commercial treaties recently entered into with the other powers. Three officers of the Bavarian Guards have been degraded, owing to their cruel treatment of their men. Sydney, This Day. The National Association has issued its platform, practically throwing down the gauntlet to the Labor party. The platform includes the dual vote. The deficit of the Cable Company for the year, owing to the reduction in cable rates, is estimated at Brisbane, This Day. Over three hundred Japanese, employed on the Goondi sugar plantation, near Geraldton, have struck work, owing to a reduction having been made in their wages for time lost through wet weather. The residents of Geraldton are arming in case of emergency. Hobart, This Day. The barque Dion, which left Liverpool on 3rd November for Wellington, has arrived here, haying- been seriously damaged in a gale. She has lost her .main mast. Xp.w Plymouth. February 8 The party who ascended Mount Egmont yesterday found the body of Southwood, who went up last April and did not return. The body was found in a good state of preservation at the top of the mountain. This Day. A party of eight men left at noon today for tho mouutain to fetch Sauthwood's body to town. Auckland, February 8. Telegrams from Taupo announce that Ngaruhoe, an active cone on Mount Tonjjiiriro, burst into eruption early on Sunday morning. The mountain shook, and all at once an enormous volume of flarao, stones and smoke was thrown from the crater high into the air. The mountain continued to belch forth at intervals on Sunday, and grey dust fell. Ngarnhoe is about 10 miles from the Tokoanau settlement. The Tninui arrived yesterday morning from London.