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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 111, 7 November 1895, Page 2

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POLITICAL PRISONERS PARDONED i GERMANY AND THE CONGO OUTRAGE. NEW YORK ELECTIONS. | Per Press Association I London, November 5. Mr David Elder advises butter producers in the colonies to only consign shipments to commission agents. The British Government has cabled to President Kruger that the closing of the Transvaal fords, thus preventing the transit of Cape goods, is regarded by it as an unfriendly action and a breach of the convention. It is presumed the re-open-ing will take place within ten days. The Venezuelans assert that the schooner Myoaotia was a local smuggler and that Garcia, who was shot by a coastguardsrnaD, was not a British subject The balance-sheet of the London Bank of Australasia shows a profit of £14,950. The Bank carries forward £10,222, and pays a dividend of 5\ per cent on the preference shares. The police by a splendid stratagem, have recovered 13 more of the ingots of silver lately stolen from the Sfc Pancras Railway station. Dr Cornelius Herz, implicated in the Panama scandals, is again reported to be dying in England. The Court dismissed his appeal. In the course of his remarks at a meeting today Sir Henty Loch said that both the Cape Government and the South African Chartered Company supported Khama's appeal to prohibit the sale of liquor to natives in Bechuanaland. Calcutta Nov. 5. A messenger attached to the Cabul Embassy ran amuck and murdered Akram Khan, agent to the British Government. Vienna, Nov. 6. The Emperor has granted an amnesty to the Bohemian political offenders, including the leaders of the Omladina secret society. St. John's, Nov. 6. A coal-bed twelve miles long and six broad has been discovered here, and in tbe vicinity of the railway line. Berlin. Nov. 6. Germany upholds her own interests in connection with the enquiry into tbe execution ot Stokes, the Congo trader, and doei not support tbe British. New York, Nov. 6. Tammany Hall carried the New York city elections by a majority of 20,000.