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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 275, 30 March 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

STRANGE CONFESSION OF A DYING SOLDIER. KING THEBAU'S JEWELS. THE FRENCH AT TIMBUCTOO. CIVILISING THE NATIVES WITH MACHINE GUNS. THE SUFFRAGE AGITATION IN AUSTRIA. THE EIGHT HOURS SYSTEM IM ENGLAND. ! SIR GEORGE GREY'S VISIT TO ENGLAND. FROZEN MEAT TRADE. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, Mnreh 29. A dying soldier has confessed that himself aud a comrade stole and buried King Thcban's jewels, in Mandalay, during the Burmese war. Lord Kiniberley, Foreign Secretary, has despatched a surveyor to find the spot, and will grant him ten per cent of the property recovered. Twenty large icebergs are blocking the ocean road between New York and England. It is reported that the Czar, at the vSul tan's request, has sanctioned a Russian Heet visiting Stambonl. It has been arranged that the marriage of the Grand Duke of Hesse to Princess Victoria of Coburg. daughter ot the Duke of Edinburgh, will be solemnised at Cobnrg in a week. The ceremony is to be 11 very brilliant one The new tariff in Canada reduces the duty on fruit b\ 5 per cent. The Times sa\ s the reduction in the wool duty refers to woollen goods. The owuers of the Salford Ironworks are so satisfied with the result of the year's experiment upon the eight hours system that they iuteud to make it permanent. The Times urges that the whole of tho engineering and other skilled trades should follow the example. It is expected that Sir George Grey will have an audience with the Queen when he arrives in England. Mr Weddcl's friends in Hamburg have opened retail shops for the sale of frozen meat, and arc doing a satisfactory trade, Mr Wcdtlel shortly . revisits Germany, with a view of opening additional shops. Certificates forwarded by the German Consuls in Australia as to the soundness of the flocks will facilitate business. It is probable that the Turakina will discharge her cargo at Hamburg, and that the vessel will then bo used as a cool store Vienna, March 29. The Social Democratic Congress sitting at Vienna threatens a general strike in order to secure universal suffrage. Nfw Yoke, Vlaicli 29. The Knights of Labor are preparing to boycott a British syndicate, owning many breweries in the United States, because th ey refuse to employ Unionists. Paris, March 29. News has been received that the French troops have defeated tho Tuarcgs in Timbuctoo. Machine guns were used with deadly effect. Tho rising is now quelled. ' The French Administrator of the Ivory, Coast of Scnegambia, has been lulled in a conflict with the natives.