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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 42, 15 August 1894, Page 2

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CANNIBALISM IN FIJI. THE AMERICAN TARIFF BILL P\SSED. WOOL REMAINS ON THE FREE LIST. SANTO'S BROTHER COMMITS SUICIDE. THE RECENT BOATING FATALITY KAFFIRS AGAIN IN REVOLT. (Per Press Association). London. Auatist 13. News has been received that a band of natives in Fiji raided several towns and ate the bodies of the killed. Six John Thurston has, however, suppressed the revolt. August 14. Later reports state that the passengers on the trawling boat, which capsized on the way to Tenby, were saved. Several members of the Liberal Party are opposing the Eight Hours Bill for miners introduced by the Government. Thousands of Scotch miners are desti tute, and soup kitchens are being started for their relief The strike allowance is only 89 per fortnight. The cholera epidemic is spreading; in St. Petersburg Last week (he death roll numbered upwards of 100. Lord Rayleigh, the well-known professor of natural philosophy, has informed the British Association for the Advancement of Scienco that he has discovered a new gas in the atmosphere. Washington, August 14. Owing to the opposition displayed by the sugar trust the Democratic caucus agreed to the Senate Tariff Bill, and the House of Representatives subsequently passed the Senate's Bill by 182 to 105. Wool remains on the free list. The House passed a separate Bill placing coal and iron on the free list. It is estimated that the Tariff Bill reduces the duty by an average of 15 per cent The Senate has ratified the ChineseAmerican treaty The Amcrif an wheat crop will be eight million bushels under last year's. Paris, August 11. Santi, brother of the President's assassin, has committed suicide. The cause is attributed to griet at his brother's position. The Standard's Paris correspondent states that Santo, the murderer of President Carnot, is in a nervous and excited condition He wakes up at midnight and staro3 about him in an attitude of terror Pretoria, August 14. The Knffirs in Zontsponberg are again in revolt, and are attacking Agatha. Troops have been 6ent to repel them.