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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 143, 16 December 1895, Page 2

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THE SCULLING* CHAMPIONSHIP. THE AMERICAN MINISTER IN LONDON. THE SHIPBUILDING STRIKE. ANOTHER SON BORN TO THE DUKE OP YORK. (Per Press association.) London, December 15. Earl Selborne, speaking at Hamstead, said it would be the policy of the Government to keep the Empire's trade for the producers and the artisans. Mr W. Horn is publishing a work on explorations in Central Australia. Mr Cook, editor of the Westminster Gazette, becomes editor of the Daily News. Purkess, a bank manager who confessed to embezzling .£IB,OOO from the London Joint Stock Bank, has been committed for trial. Harding, tbe scnller, has paid a deposit for the match for (he championship of the world with Stan bury, of Sydney, the present holder of the championship. An aggregate ballot of the strikers at Clyde and Belfast, on the question of the award given by Lord James in regard to the dispute in the shipbuilding trade, has resulted in the rejection of the terms of settlement as being too low. The Duchess of York has given birth to a son. Both the mother and infant are doing well. Parliament has been summoned for the despatch of business on February 11th. Washington, Dec. 14. Leading American journals censure the remnrks of Mr Bayard, Ambassador in England, in which ho is alleged to haye attacked the domestic policy of the United States, and they demand that he be recalled. Lima, Dec. 15. Pinerola, a former president of Peru, has offered to purchase the seaports of Tacna and Arica from Chili for 10,000 piastres. Shanghai, December 15. China has re-occupied Port Arthur,