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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 44, 17 August 1894, Page 2

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A BIG LAW CASE. MISS KATE MARSDEN. GRAVE CHARGES AGAINST HER. COLLAPSE OF A BUILDING. (Per Press Association). London. August 16. The notion brought by Macresdy against the Paris firm of Scbeurer and South, a claim of £25,000 for false imprisonment, has been filed for bearing. The suit arises out of a prosecution by the firuo, of which Macready was a partner, for malversation. Tabot, Unionist, was elected for Cheoes* ter. London and St. Petersburg Committee's confirm grave charges against Miss Kate v arsden in connection with her Siberian Mission. The science research scholarship granted to Mr Jackson, of New Zealand, has been renewed for a third year. A block of warehouses has been burned at Fiume, an Austrian seaport. The damage is estimated at £300,000. The death is announced in the United States of John Quinqey Adams, a prominent democratic leader. The Times states that the FrancoCongolese treaty does not affect British rights in the upper Nile Valley, though it will compel effective occupation. The German press takes a less favourable view of the matter. The London press regards the treaty as a humiliation to British diplomacy. Btriu Pksth, August 16. A large building in course of erection at Szathinnr, 5 country in the South-east of Hungary, collapsed, burying 250 labourers in the debris. The number of killed is not at present known.