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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 66, 14 September 1895, Page 2

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ELECTION OF TWO MACARTHYITES. WHEAT GROWING AT THE CAPE. THE CONGO EXECUTION. 1 i ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. ( (Per Press Association). ] London, Sept. 11. ( Shee, a Macarthyite, was elected un- < opposed for the West Waterford seat in the House of Commons, rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr A Webb. Mr F. A. O'Keefe, a Macarthyite, was < elected for the Limerick seat, for which Mr Daly improperly was returned by a 7 majority of 807 over the Parnellite can- < didate Arrived — Star of New Zealand from the Bluff. The butter market is very quiet and ' prices unchanged. '< Germany 6uppor(s England's protest ( against the execution without judicial ; trial of Mr Stokes, a British trader in the ! Congo district. '. The British Association for the Advancement of Science, which is now meeting at Ipswich, hag approved the Geographical Society's efforts to form an expedition to the Antarctic regions, but connot assist with funds at present. Capetown, Sept 13. The Cape Government intends to despatch two farmers to Australia to enquire into the methods flf growing wheat which enables Cape farmers to be undersold in their own market. Shanghai, September 12. Rebellion is general iv the three inland provinces abutting upon Tibet and Guter Mongolia, namely Kansu, which has a population of 9J millions, Shensi, (8£ millions), and Szeohuen (68 millions.)