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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 208, 6 January 1894, Page 2

'Frisco mail Items.

Last season there were 22 deaths in England and Ireland from accidents received during the game of football. The publication of the list has excited much comment. The death-roll in the United States from the same cause promises to be longer for the same period of time. Representatives of the leading American banking bouses, as well as representatives of English banking houses, have joined in assuring press representatives that it is not at all unlikely that the Assistant United States Treasurer, Mr Conrad N. Jordan, who arrived in London on November 2Gth, is there on a mission to float the American loan which the Eng lish and Continental papers have fir a long time declared imminent The Pall Mall Gazette says that negociations are proceeding, backed by the Russian Government, with a view to ending the competition between Russian and American petroleum, and forming a great international trust. A conference, at which the formation ot this trust was discussed, was held at St. Petersburg recently. It remains to be Been whether j the American exporters, who have the largest share of the trade, will agree with the views of Russia. The Royal Geographical Society received news on December 9th of the expedition headed by the American explorer, Mr W. Astor Chanler, who started out to j ascend Mount Kenia, the great mountain of Equatorial Africa. The expedition had stranded while waiting for porters, don- I keys, and goods to arrive from the coast. Chanler's messengers had been gone four ' months, and it was doubtful if they would ever reach him. His animals had died of plague, including 150 donkeys and fifteen camels. Lord Charles Beresford's new naval programme commences by declaring that the navy of Great Britian must be onethird stronger than any combining of the fleets of her two possible enemies, France and Russia. He proposes to expend £22 000,000 for the construction of six ironclads of the Royal Sovereign class, ten cruisers of the Blake clas?, and fifty cruisers of the Havock class, designed especially to destroy the enemy's torpedo stations. The sum of £500,000 should be expended for a reserve ammunition supply, similar to that maintained by the French at Toulon, and £634,600 used in strengthening the moles at Gibraltar. The London Financial Times publishes an interview with Mr Chauueey M. Depew, the well-known American statesman, who is quoted assaying: — " President Cleveland was right. The tariff need not cause any fear in regard to American railroads. They will get along all right." Explaining the recent crisis, Mr Depew said that business before the panic of 1893 was being conducted in the most conservative way within living memory, and that the pauic was due to the fact that for the first time in 30 years a Presideut was elected with a freetrade policy and a possible majority in both Houses. The majority which put Mr Cleveland in, he continued, was composed of all the heterogeneous elements of the populace wanting to change the existing order of things.