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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 291, 13 June 1895, Page 2

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RUSSIAN-JAPAN TREATY. THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. NATIVE TROUBLE AT THE CAPE. A GOVERNOR RESIGNS MR GLADSTONE ON MODERN ARMAMENTS. A MISERABLE SPITE. DR GRACE'S TESTIMONIAL. (Per Press Association). Shanghai, June 11. The commercial treaty between Russia and Japan has been concluded and signed. The Chinese officials incited tho mob at Chingtu. Speaking in the Reichsrath, Count Solocbosky, who recently succeeded Count Kalnoky, said lhat Austria would strictly support the Triple Alliance for the sake of the peice of Europe. Capetown, May 11. A detachment of two hundred Cape mounted rifles are proceeding to Pondoland to arrest a number of natives for opposing payment of taxes. London, June 12. Sir W. Robinson, Governor of Western Australia, has joined the Directorate of tho Standard Bank of South Africa. Tho Colonial office state he cauuot hold both the Directorship and the Governorship and Sir W. Robinson will therefore accept his pension and retire. The Gothic carried her chilled beef at a temperature of 20 degrees. Mr Stewart, the Official Receiver, has declared a dividend of fifteen shillings in the Bank of Adelaide estate. Mr Gladstone denounces as insane the strain caused by the expense of modern armaments. A Thaddeu's portrait of Mr Gladstone which was hanging in a West End gallery, has been hacked fco pieces. The act is attributed to a political motive. JLord Brassey presides at tlio Congress of Naval Architects in Paris. Sir T. Sutherland, presiding at a meeting of the P. and O. Company, said tho receipts from freight and passage money had slightly increased during the halfyear. Australian passengers return, however, had shown no improvement. Obituary — Sir Samuel Wilson, the well-known Australian squatter, aged 63, after a long illness. The Marylcbone Cricket Club invites donations from the Australian Colouies for the Dr Grace testimonial fund.