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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 118, 2 April 1892, Page 2

THE LATEST.

(Received April 2, 11.45 a.m.) St. Petebsbcbg, April 1. Severe penalties are to be inflicted on persons convicted of treason. New Yobk, April 1. News has been received that twenty thousand rebels are preparing to march on Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, but the report is not authentic. Kio Janiero, April 1. A strong party in Brazil are opposed to military domination. London, April 1. It is stated the Unionists will oppose the Irish Nationalist Party in order to test whether there has been a change of feeling since 1885. Mr Balfour in reply to a question in the House of Commons said he doubted the correctness of Mr Arnold White's statement that seventy thousand Eussian Jews were coming to England shortly. Such an invasion would be intolerable. The Duke of Devonshire, in the House of Lords, insisted the Unionists were more likely to bring the principal reforms into operation than the Liberals. The latter were pledged to vague hopes of Home Rule. He advised the Unionists not to outbid them with promises impossible of performance. Sydney, This Day. The chairman of the Proprietary mine says the fall in silver stocks is due to the falling of silver. Eyery drop of one penny makes a difference of £4,000 per month to the Proprietary mine. Wellington, This Day. An important judgment affecting local bodies was given by the Chief Justice to day. Mrs Spackman obtained £200 damages from the Wairarapa North County, for the loss of her husband killed by falling down an embankment on a road- The Council appealed and Judge Pendergast sustained the appeal with costs on th* ground tbat no duty was cast on local bodies to fence dangerous places oq roads. The railway revenue will be slightly above the estimate, but not more than two or three thousand. A curious accident happened yesterday. The piles were being removed from under a house with the view of lowering it, when suddenly it gave way. A man named Malm aud a boy named Jenkins were beneatb and only escaped being crushed to death by two or three piles holding fast and protecting them. As it was they were severely injured.