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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 221, 19 March 1895, Page 2

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[ JABEZ BALFOUR. SPAIN AND HER COLONIES, i . THE SWAZI KING GIVES WAY. THE TROUBLE ABOUT THE STEAMER ALLIANCE, i THE EXPLOSION IN AUSTRIA. > » (Per Prees Association). .London, March 17. , In the House of Commons, Mr Arnold Morley, Postmaster-General, mentioned a, that the Government had not moved in - tha matter of establishing penny postage I to the British colonies because several ol II the larger and more important colonies e were opposed to the proposal. e Georgina Anne, Dowager Countess ol if Glasgow, is dead. e Further reports, so far unconfirmed, s have been received that the Argentine Government has ordered Jabez Balfour's extradiction, but that the Salta officials are again causing delay. The Daily Chronicle, commenting on a letter of Mr R. L. Stevenson on Samoan affairs, published after his death, expresa ses the hope that the Government will t be induced to mitigate the rigorous treat- ;, ment meted out to Mataafa. 1 Buenos Ayres, March 18. Salta officials defy the National Government, and refuse to allow Balfour to be extradited till a local suit is decided. Capetown, March 13. e The King of Swaziland, having submitted to Transvaal rule, has been proclaimed paramount chief by the President ' of the Republic. Madrid, March 18. The Spanish troops suppressed a rising among the natives of Mindanao, one oi a the Philippine Islands, but with the losa of 200 men killed and wounded. New York, March 17. The Spanish Minister in New York ' declares that the United States steamer a Alliance was running a blockade on the Cuban coast when fired at by the Spanish man-of-war. Vienna, March 18. The death roll in connection with the ' explosion in the Troppan coal mine , numbers 49. 1