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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 297, 25 April 1894, Page 2

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THE CONGO FRONTIER EXTRAORDINARY RESTRICTION AGAINST MARRIAGE. BEAUTIFICATION OF JOAN OF j ARC. THE INCREASED TAXATION IN ENGLAND. AMERICAN TARIFF QUESTION. (FEB PHBSS ASSOCIATION.) London, Apr! l 21. Arrived — S.S. Waikato from Wellington (February 24th) ; .Akaroa, barque, from Napier (January 12th) Mr Convnr, husband of the well known Australian authoress " Tasuia," is dead. In the House of Commons, the income ! tax resolutions have been agreed to. Mr Go6chen asserts that the decision ' to limit the increased duty on spirits and | beer to one year will probably result in a j loss to the revenue of a million pounds Washington April 24 ' Tho Senate has refused to receive ' petitions from Coxey and his army. The National Guard in Washington is being mobilised with the view of preserving order, if necessary, President Cleveland has appealed to the Democrats to fulfil their pledges regarding the tariff. P*_rs, April 24. Negotiations between the French and Belgian Governments to delimit the Congo frontier have failed. Some sensation has beon caused by the President issuing a decree forbidding officials in Diplomatic Service to marry without obtaining the assent of the authorities. The Premier states that this step is rendered necessary on account of German Jewesses married to diplomatists disclosing French secrets. The ceremony of beautil-cation of Joan of Arc was celebrated in the Church of Notre Dame yesterday. The Archbishop of Paris blessed the bauner of the heroine preserved in the sacred edifice.