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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 53, 28 August 1894, Page 2

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♦ FROZEN MEAT TRADE. FRESH DISTURBANCES IN SICILY A JEWISH FAMILY MURDERED. CHOLERA INCREASING IN RUSSIA COLONIAL PRODUCE. REVIVAL IN TRADE. CHARGES OF CANNIBALISM. A REIGN OF TERROR. | Per Press Association.) London. August 26. The Times refers favourably to the Federal policy of the Premier of New South Wales, and considers that there is greater hope of its success especially if Sir Henry Parkes and other prominent advocates of Federation give their support. The Ruahine arrived at Plymouth yesterday with her cargo of frozen meat in good condition. The Tongariro left Plymouth to-day for Wellington and Lyttelton with 119 passengers and 2000 tons of cargo. Silver is quoted at 2/6£. The prospects of the hop crop are better than for several years past. Mr Tallerman is erecting machinery to enable the coarser portions of Australian meat to be treated. He addressed the co-operative societies of the East End, urging them to promote the sale. St James' Gazette sayb Mr Reid, of I New South Wales, and Mr Rhodes, of j South Africa, are racing to be first to form a federal dominion. Rome, Aueust 27. Fresh disturbances have broken out in Sicily and the situation there is regarded as grave. Vienna, August 26. The citizens of Boschewen have murdered a wealthy Jewish family consisting of nine persons. St. Petersburg, August 27. Cholera is increasing in St Petersburg Warsaw, and Western Russia. New York, August 27. The Bank clearing returns show there is a revival of trade. Berlin, August 27. It is reported the cannibal habits of the Soudanese troops employed by the German authorities in Cameroons are ' creating a reign of terror. I Owing lo frequent subsidences in Eisleben — a town of Prussian Saxony — destroying houses, it is reported that the whole population is departing. The cause is believed to be the failure to drain a swamp, which is undermining the town. Germany intends to build two railways to the southern frontier, in order to enable troops to be rapidly mobilised in the direction of Belfort, a strong French fortress a short distance across the border.