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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 277, 2 April 1894, Page 2

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THE LIQUOR LAW IN CAROLINA. FATAL RIOTS \T DARLINGTON. 20 DETECTIVES KILLED. THE LIBERATOR SOCIETY. THE RUSSIAN FAMINE. THE EIGHT HOURS QUESTION. WAR INEVITABLE. LOUIS KOSSUTH. THE PACIFIC CABLE. THE NEW ATLANTIC SERVICE. RICH COLONIAL GOLD EXHIBITS. CHARGE OF FRAUD AGTINST MRS GORDON BAILLIE. (FEB. PRFSS ASSOCIATION). Washington, April 1. The Cbairtunn of the Senate Committee on Foreign relations declares that the Tripartite agreement is entangling, and considers the alliance had better be ended. The attempts to enforce the liqnor laws in South Carolina have caused riots at Darlington. Twenty detectives who were searching for concealed dram shops were driven into the swamps and killed by the rioters ; several citizens were aUo killed and many wounded. Three companies of States troops have been disbanded for refusing to proceed to Darlington to assist in preserving order. Maduid, March 31 The hull of the wrecked vessel contain ing dynamite has been demolished without causing any further explosion, and the resident arc returning to their homes. News has been received from Manilla that General Blanco, with three thousand troops, is trying to suppress a serious Malay outbreak in the Philippine Islands. Viknna, March 30. Two thousand gas workers employed in this city have struck work in support of the Eight Hours System. They wish to leave the city in darkness, and arc using violence to prevent their places being filled. Capetown, March 31. The Aorangi left to-day for Hobart and Wellington. London, April 1. The quarterly revenue returns show a surplus of .£543 000. Mr Humphreys Owen, Liberal, has been elected to represent Montgomeryshire in the House of Commons, vice Mr Stuart Rendel, who was recently created a peer His mnjorit.7 was 225 votes. Jabez Balfour is writing a narrative on the Liberator Permanent Building Society's failure. He expects that the profits will be sufficient to pay the creditors 20 per cent. Several financial syndicates are applying to Mr Huddart to be allowed to assist in floating his Atlantic Company. ; , Tho gold exhibits from Western Australia are attracting much attention at the Imperial Institute, and Mr Spinks, the head of the well-known jewellery firm, has offered to purchase the whole lot. In the House of Commons, Sir G. S. Baden-Powell, M.P., for Kirkdale, tabled a notice of motion to the effect that it is desirable to immediately establish direct postal and telegraph service with Australia and New Zealand by way of the Pacific, and that the Imperial Government cooperative with the Canadian and Australasian Governments in carrying out the suggestion. Dr W. Roberston Smith, M.A., LL.D., D.D., Professor of Arabic in Cambridge University, is dead, aged 48 years. Mrs Gordon Baillio has been committed for trial on a charge of fraud in connection with the purchase of some pictures. For the defence it was urged that the pictures were being purchased on credit. Accused has not been released on bail. Pabis, March 30. M. Flourcns will probably be prosecuted for disclosing diplomatic secrets. M. St. Hilaire, the well-known French statesman, says that war between France and Germany is inevitable, and every day France's opportunity for revenge drawn nearer. St. I'KTBBSBtTBO. March 30. Thousands of peasants in Eurok and and Exenburg are dying of starvation. Buua I'bsth, .VI arch 31. A tremendous ovation was accorded the remains of Kossuth when they were brought to the city. Over 130,000 people witnessed the lying»in state at the National Museum.