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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 286, 12 April 1894, Page 2

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GOVERNMENT OF UGANDA. FROZEN MEAT TRADE. THE TROUBLES OF A NOVELIST. ANTI-ENGLISH OUTBREAK IN CAIRO. (per press association). London, April 11 It is announced that the late Sir Gerald Portal, British Commissioner in Uganda, had advised that an English Comwifitiioßei- should be appointed to govern, supported by five hundred Soudanese. In his -despatches he also advised the construction of a railway from Uganda to the coast. , The American visible supply of wheat | is 88,000,000 bushels. News from Teueriflfe states that the Gothic has arrived there with her cargo of frozen meat in good order. David Christie Murray, novelist, was to-day summoned for his wife's maintenance, and agreed to allow her thirty shillings per week. The Admiralty has engaged twenty eight vessels belonging to the Cunard, Peninsular, and Canadian -Pacific lines as cruisers, instead of nine as at first intended. While travelling in a railway carriage ] in Spain a robber stole the jewels belonging to the Duchess of Manchester. The thief in making his escape fell under the wheels of the carriage, and had both legs crushed. The jewels were recovered. The proposals submitted by the Government for an increase in the British navy are being debated in the House of Commons. Sir F. K. Shuttleworth, Secretary to the Admiralty, said it was intended to make the British fleet equal to the combined strength of the fleets of the two of the greatest foreign powers. Caiuo, April 10. Some Egyptians attacked a number of British residents in tins city jesterdaj, but thn disturbance was soon quelled. Tho outbreak indicates a serious spread of fauaUcism.