TRADE IN POULTRY.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 51, 28 August 1895, Page 2

TRADE IN POULTRY.

THE NAVY ESTIMATES j ANOTAHR TORPEDO RECORD. AMERICAN POLITICS. (Per Press Association.) London, August 26. A portion of the Damascus' chickens have been sold at Is lid ; ducks at 2s ; turkey's at 53 9d. During the Blackfriars' fire a black mass, comprising many thousands of rats, crossed the Thames and were drowned, as they failed to scale the embankment. The navy estimates amount to .£8,701,---000. The outlay on ship building has been placed at £5,383,642, nnd on armaments £730,000. Yarrow and Co. have builfc a torpedo boat destroyer, named the Sokol, for Russia, which has showu a speed of over 30 kuots —the highest yet attained. It is reported that France has consented to allow Mr Waller, the expelled American Consul, to ro-enter Madagascar. Washington, August 26. It is reported that the Hawaiian delegates will attend the opening of Congress to appeal for the immediate annexation of the Sandwich Islands. Mr Hilburn, a Californian member, has promised to propose the appointment of a committee to enquire into the matter. The Chairman of the National Democratic Party declares that the party does not intend to make the silver question the test issue of the elections of 189(5, neither does it desire to juggle with the tariff, as the present prosperous condition of the country is quite satisfactory. Major McKinly considers there will be no necessity for a change in the tariff for two years. Vienna, August 27. The condition of Arch-Duke Franz is worse.