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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 230, 3 February 1894, Page 2

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(FEB FBKSS ASSOCIATION). AuckiiAno, February 2East Indian mails received in London on December 2Hth, announce the death of Miss Chariotte M. Tucker, known all over the world as " A.L.O.E.*' For the last 18 years Miss Tucker has been engaged in missionary work in India. The London Agricultural Gazette of January Ist, takes a gloomy view of the crop prospects for 1894, owing to the extraordinary mildness of the winter, and the absence of snow, which promises badly. The shooting party at Sandringham, says a London despatch of January Ist, has been abandoned in consequence of the recent illness of the Princess of Wales which has left her very weak and much depressed, and there will be no more guests there this winter. Oiarles Watkins, for nearly 30 years clerk in the Bank of Englaud, was arrested on December 80th for stealing JJSOO from the bank. The London Daily Telegraph thinks the proposal to add Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico, to the States of the American Union will probable involve the United States in] embarrassments more difficult to surmount than any it has thus far experienced. The Archduke Otto, heir to the Austrian throne, attempted suicide recently but in view of the Crown Prince Rudolph's tragic death, efforts are being made to hush up the matter. In the meantime the Archduke has been sent to Egypt. The young man's eccentricities distress Ids father, the Emperor, very much. The Russian General, Count Gourko, has been paralysed on the left side. The Pall Mull Gazette publishes a review of the trade of the year, compiled from official returns, which shows that the trade during 1893 has been worse even thau in 1892, snd that general gloom now hangs over the country's industries. Merchants generally are looking with confidence for improving trade in 1894, provided there is no serious strike or look-out. Snow fell in London on January 6th to the depth of several inches. Nothing like the period of snow and cold at the beginning of New Year had been experienced in the English metropolis since 1881. The Polish newspapers publish accounts of a recent attempt to poison the Czar of Russia at a banquet, The first course was only half consumed, and the Czar ordorcd the remainder to be sect to an orphan asylum. Later, the Czar, the orphans, and all who partook of the fish were taken siclr, and an investigation showed that the fish had been poisoned.