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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 248, 24 February 1894, Page 2

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LOBENGULA'S DEATH DENIED. AN IMPORTANT INVENTION. STUDENTS' FATAL JOKE. EXPLOSION OF A POWDER MAGAZINE. MANY LIVES LOST. SENDING THREATENING LETTEES TO THE QUEEN. (PBB PBESS ASSOCIATION ) London, February 22. Mr Sam Lewis, the well known money lender, has won £l(»,000 at Monte Carlo. The Appeal Court has confirmed the right of thes authorities of the Empire Theatre to produce tableaux vivants of famous pictures. The football match between teams representing the Cambridge and Oxford Universities, played under the Rugby rules, was won by the former team by two goals. A telegram to Dalziell's Agency from Capetown gives a denial of the reported death of Lobeugnla. Mr W. H. Preece, a well known electrician, who has lately been engaged in the investigation of the principle of the transmission of messages without the agency of wires, lias perfected and patented an invention. He asserts that by his discoveries he can cause sound to radiate any distance from a given point. Owing to a practical joke in the uso of cholorine gas at Cornell University a number of students are critically ill and one has succumbed, to the effects of the poison. An escaped lunatic named H. W. Carter has been committed for trial for sending tlurcatening letters to the Queen. Bcbnos Avats, Februnry 22. It is alleged that Jabez Balfour is to be charged with fraud in connection with the Salta Brewery, and that this is likely to delay his extradition. Paris. F*-l>runry 23. The new ironclad Bayard had a two hours" trial to-day, but owing to a lcah the cngiut! room was Hooded and the vessel returned for repairs. The Academy lms again rejected M, Zola by l'< 2 votes. Vienna, February 23 A system of signals has been devised to prevent the Chamber being surprised by any Anarchist oxitrage. Bau.-sn.*, Frb-uary 23. A powder magazine at Ghent ex ploded and mauv persons have been killed. Rome. February 23. The Italian Government iuteuda tc propose au Income tax of 20 per cent. Capetown, February 23 The Cape Mounted Rifles are missinf at Umatata, on the borders of Poudo land. llio dk Jankiko, February 22. The steamer Carradale, from Wcl liugton to London, has pnt in here hay ing lost a propeller.