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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 213, 9 March 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

♦- THIRTY-ONE MINERS BURNED TO DEATH. THE FROZEN MEAT TRADE. j WHAT IT COSTS TO STRENGTHEN THE NAVY. AFFAIRS IN EGYPT. ENGLISH IMPORTS and EXPORTS. I Pee Press Association. | London, March 7. In the House of Commons the Australian Customs Bill was read a second time without opposition. The imports for February have decreased in value by .£5,850,000, and exports by i' 1,700,000. The Daily Chronicle gives currency to the rumour that the Government intend to abandon the Cyprus Military vote. The latest news from Naples states that the steamer Oroya remains in much the same position. The Marquis of Ripoo bas beeu informed that Lord Kintore's successor in India will soon be appointed. He has received numerous applications for the post of Governor of South Australia from noblemen and others. Cairo, March 8. It is asserted that the natives in the City are secretly purchasing arms, but the British authorities are taking measures to combat and suppress any rising. Berlin, March 7. The German Government have decided to send exhibits to the French Exhibition in 1900. In the House of Commons Mr T. D. Sullivan, M.P. for the Western Division of Donegal, asked whether Anstralian frozen meat was examined before shipment, in order to exclude diseased car c<ises if there were any. Mr R. C. Gar. dner, President of the Board of Agriculture, promised to inquire into the sub* ject raised in the question. The Times estimates that the proposed additions to the navy will cost a Bum of nearly 20 millions sterling. Madrid, March 7, Thirtyone men have been burned to death in a Spanish mine.