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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 210, 6 March 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

» t THE INFLUENZA. EPIDEMIC. ] j LORD CHURCHILL'S WILL, < j FRANCE AND GERMANY. ] RUSSIA AND THE POLES. FRANCE AND HER COLONIAL POSSESSIONS. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION!. Behlin. March 4. News hn.9 been received that the Governor of German New Guinea has died at Batavia. London. March 5. Arrived — Indra and Waitnate. The influenza is still increasing. The underwriters have taken a hundred thousand pounds worth of shares in the Sidney Collieries roiupuny. Obituary— Sir Henry Rawlinson, Thos. Clegborn, and W. Westworth, the wellknown financial authority. The late Lord R. Churchill's personalty was sworn at under £76,000. Pahis, March 5. France has accepted Germany's invitation to send a squadron to Keil to open the North Sea canal. In the Chamber of Deputies M. de Villiers advocated that the colonies should be granted economic freedom similar to the system of British colonies, to whom, he declared, the British Empire owes its prosperity. M. Chantemps said that France intended a policy of peaceful expansion, but speaking with regard to the Soudan he said she would not abandon one morsel of the territory she possessed there without resorting to military action. The Cape, March 4. It is believed that Mr Cecil Rhodes is treating with Canada, with the result that traders will send direct steamers between the two places, but without Government assistance. San Francisco, March 5. The chief sentences passed on those connected wfth the Haiwaii rising are : — Gulkick and Seaward, each 35 years' imprisonment. Richard Walker, an Englishmen, and Pudge and Wideman, each 30 years' imprisonment St. Petersburg, March 5. Twenty-six persons in Poland, mostly students, have been placed on trial for treason in forming a secret society, whose object was to regain the independence of the country.