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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 163, 9 January 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

THE TASMANIAN LOAN. PRESENTATION TO BISMARCK. FKENCH EXPLORERSSEVERE SNOWSTORMS. (FRB PRESS ASSOCIATION London. January 8 The amount subscribed foe the Tasmanian loan of was £2,400,000 The reporters charged with being ac cessories to the manslaughter of Smith, pugilist, who wan killed in a glove fight with " Dummy " Winters, of Australia, were discharged. The resignation of Sir V. Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, is denied. Dr Creed, of Sydney, in a letter to the Times, uges that the inaction of the Government in the Costa Rica Packet case, has injured the Imperial prestige in Australia, and is tending to weaken the ties between the colonies and the mother country. The Special Committee in Corporation of London, appointed to consider the unification of London, opposes the amalgamation of the Corporation and County Council, and advises the creation of ssparate municipalities with a central body for certain purposes. ' Capetown. January 8. The Ruapehu left yesterday for Hobart; the Waikato, for Auckland, passed here on January 4th. Paris, January 8. News has been received thai Gerard and Phins, two French explorers, succeeiedin i etching Lhassa, the sacred capital of Thibet, but that when leaving the city the inhabitants killed Gerard and captured Phins. who is held for punishment. Washington, January 8. The German residents in America in tend to present Prince Bismarck on his eighty-eighth birthday with a silver obelisk six feet high, surmounted by an eagle boldiijg the German and American nags.