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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 276, 31 March 1894, Page 2

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* REPORTED PLOT AGAINST THE QUEEN. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND AND THE SILVER QUESTION. THE FEAII OF DYNAMITE. (PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London. March 30. The election for the Berwick seat in the House of Commons, rendered vacant by the accession of Mr Marjoribanks to the peerage, took place to-day. Mr Tennant, Liberal, was elected, defeating Mr C. B. Balfour, Conservative, by a majority of 465. After three days' bitter wrangling, the shareholders of tho Freeman's Journal Company supported Mr Sexton against Messrs Healy and Dillon, who lost their seats on the dictorate. Mr Huddart is arranging with the Canadian Pacific Railway Company to erect cold stores at Vancouver. The Pock Company's experiment in the direction of discharging meat direct into tho frozen stores has been a success. The Nairnshire's cargo was unloaded in two daysTind a half. Iv the House of Commons to-day, Mr Mundella again introduced the Labour Disputes (Arbitration) Bill, Vienna, March 29. The Emperors of Austria and Germany lmd a cordial meeting at Abbazia, on tne Adriatic. The Monarchs twice exchanged embraces in the presence of dense crowds. Pahis, March 29. The French press reports that a plot was discovered to wreck Queen Victoria's train dnring her recent journey to Florence. "Rome. March 29 The Emperors of Germany and Austria have thanked the Pope for his Encyclical letter to the Poles. The King of Italy opened the Medical Congress yesterday. The ceremony was of a brilliant character. Madrid. March 30 Twenty thousand residents of Santander have left their homes during tho work of exploring the remains of the wrecked vessel in which is laid a quantity of dynamite. Washington, March 30. The President's message to Congress regarding the silver question declares the Seigniorage Bill a dangerous measure, likely to revive the financial crisis. He behaves it would bo safe to coin seigniorage silver if the Government were granted wider powers to issue bonds in order to protect the gold reserve.