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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 236, 10 February 1894, Page 2

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M. PASTEUR'S CURE FOR ANTHRAX IN SHEEP. £15,000 WANTED FOR THE SOLE RIGHTS. MR GLADSTONE INTERVIEWED. TWENTY-FIVE REBEL SOLDIERS HANGED. SANTIAGO IN A STATE OF SIEGE. THE AMERICAN TARIFF. CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS. PROPOSED ABOLITION OF A LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. FAILURE OF AN ENGLISH BANK. THE VATICAN AND RUSSIA. FRANCE PREPARING FOR WAR. GERMANY AND RUSSIA. INCREASE IN THE IMPORTS OF COLONIAL BUTTER. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London. February 9. The Aorangi arrived at Plymouth yesterday with her meat in good condition. The London and North-Western District Bank has suspended payment. Mr Gladstone assured a French interviewer he had no idea of resigning, and was decided to preserve the democratic programme despite the opposition of the House of Lords. In the House of Lords the Parish Councils Bill was passed through committee. The import of Colonial butter up to February Ist was three thousand tons in excess of last year ; imports from the Continent decreased eight hundred tons. Halifax, February 9. The House of Assembly in Nova Scotia has addressed a petition to the Queen, asking for powers to abolish the Legislative Council. Washington, February 9. The Senate has adopted the Federal Elections Bill, which is intended as a safeguard against corruption. Tho Democratic Finance Committee of the Senate are preparing radical changes in tbe tariff with a view to securing revenue by 5 classes of ad valorem duties and only a small free list. Valparaiso, February 9. Santiago, the capital of Chili, is in a state of siege. Many friends of the dead President Balmaceda have been arrested. Paris, February 9. M. Pasteur has offered an Australian syndicate the sole rights for Australia to his process for curing anthrax in sheep for fifteen thousaud pouuds. Tho French Government has given orders for the construction of 19 new torpedo boats of modern type. The work is to be taken in hand immediately. Rome, February 9. The relations between the Czar and the Pope are strained in consequence of the prosecution of Russian Catholics. Berlin, February 9. Twenty-five rebel soldiers were hanged in the Cameroons. The German press demand the recall of the Governor. The feeling in Germany in favor of a commercial treaty with Russia is increasing, and the agrarian opposition in the Reichstag has proved unavailing. Madrid, February 9. The Sultan of Morocco pleads inability to pay the indemnity demanded by Spain for the attack by the Riffs at Melilla.