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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 97, 21 October 1895, Page 2

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« . (Per Press Association.) I London, October 19 Lord Roseberry, speaking at Scarborough, said the Liberals would npj>o«t\ without possibility of a compromise, any attempt to disturb the settlement of the education question. Liberalism, he declared, was never more alive, and never more needed. Alone they were able to fight revolutionary theories, and they possessed a moral force making for the freedom of majorities in Wales, Ireland, and Scotland. Mr Chamberlain has ordered Maxim guns to defend the frontier of British Guinea, where it is expected the Venezuela forces may attempt to cross. The colonial authorities declined to vote the expense. October 20. Britain has delivered an ultimatum to Venezuela respecting the arrest of police in the disputed boundary. Mr Chamberlain said it was expected the colony woald have endorsed the Imperial action in ordering guns for the defence of the frontier. Paris, October 20. General Duchesne and the garrison have arrived at Antananarivo. The black troops and Hovas are returning to their villages. The behaviour of the French troops is said to have been exemplary. The French Government has consented to a reduction of 7 million francs in tbe naval estimates. Senator Maguier has been found guilty of accepting a bribe in connection with the South of France railway scandal, and sentenced to one year's imprisonment.