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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 171, 23 January 1896, Page 2

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(Per Pbes9 Association). jjondon, January 21. i Mod son, wbo was acquitted on the charge of shooting Lieutenant Hamborough, bas been charged with perjury i under the name of W y ville. The charge is the outcome of the burning of Monson's house at Douglas, in connection I with which he made a claim of upon the Royal Insurance Company for jewellery destroyed. Rome, January 20. The Due D'Orleans, while out hunting was thrown from his horse, sustaining a fracture of the shoulder and ankle. Ottawa, January 21. The Dominion Government has asseuted to the Behring Sea fishery dispute being submitted to arbitration between Great Britain and the United States, each to appoint two delegates, and Switzerland the umpire. St. Petersburg, Jan. 21. A theatre, South Russia, has been burned, with loss of life. Fifty-nine corpses have been xccovered from the ruins. Rio de Janeiro, Jan. 21. The Brazilian Government demands the restoration of Trinidad in the South Atlantic which some time since it was reported Great Britain had annexed — and threatens to cease diplomatic relations unless the request bo complied with. New York, January 20. The report of the committoe of the New York Yacht Club which has been investigating Lord Duuraven's complaints as to the races for the American Cup, relieves his Lordship from the censure passed upon him by the American press for his protest against the interference with the competing vessels by the excursion steamers.