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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 320, 22 May 1894, Page 2

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« DEATH OF EDMUND YATES. | THE ARDLAMONT TRAGEDY. | THE SAMOAN QUESTION. ENGLAND'S NAVAL DEFENCES. POPE LEO AND THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT. • THE DEATH DUTIES. THE BUTTER TRADE, THE EUROPEAN SITUATION. I PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] London, May 21. Obituary — Edmund Yates, proprietor of The World, of apoplexy. The death of Mr Yates was rather sudden. While attending a revival of the drama " Mouey " at the Garrick Theatre, he was seized with an apopletic fit, and died in the Savoy Hotel where he was taken for medical attendance. The proclamation of outlawry against Scott, who was wanted as a witness in the Ardlamont murder trial, has been withdrawn. The Daily Chronicle says the Pope is deeply grieved at the attitude of the French Government, and is recalling the Papal Nuncio. Sir G. Baden-Powell, immediately the House of Commons reassembles, intends to endeavour to defeat Sir Win. Harcourt's proposal to levy succession duties on properties outside Great Britain. He denounces it as illegal and impossible, and claims that its tendency will be to create hurtful friction in the financial relation?, between the Mother Country and the colonies. Some 400 cabowners have yielded to the demand of the men. It is reported that the Government is discussing the advisability of spending £10,000,000 upon the strengthening of the naval ports, especially Portsmouth Cold stores capable of storing 2000 tons of butter and cheese are being erected in Tooley street, London. The London Spectator says a letter received from a Sydney workman states that strikers have caused 99 per cent of the present misery in Australia. Beblin. VI ay 20 The National Zeitung, discussing the Samoan question, says the various Aus tralasian colonies are acting as if their claims to the group were paramount. Capetown, VI ay 21. General Joubert has gone to Troutspan berg, in north east of Transvaal, owing to the chief Walaback assuming a threaten, ing attitude, and fortifying himself in the mountains. Paris. May 21. M. Bordoux has been appointed French Minister for Colonial Defence. A section of the French press is urging the formation of a League to neutralise Alsace-Lorraine in the interests of peace. Vienna, Mar 21, Austria and Russia have completed the details in counestion with their commercial treaties.