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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 188, 12 February 1896, Page 2

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(Per Press Association.) IiONDON, February 11. Cardinal Vaughan, the Bishops of Peterborough and Hereford, the Presidents of the Wesleyan, Baptist, and Methodist congregations, the Mayors of .London, Edinburgh, Manchester, and Glasgow, and Sir George Grey all advocate setting up of permanent machinery for arbitrating on all disputes between England and America. Kruger insists the subjects on which he is to confer with Mr Chamberlain shall first be specified. Mr Sexton has finally declined to take the leadership of his party. Sofia, Feb. 10. Prince Ferdinand, addressing the Sobranje, stated that by giving his consent to the baptism of his son in the Greek faith he had loosened family ties and incurred the Papal anathema, and therefore he expected a royal recompense. A quarter of a million francs is to be voted for the baptism ceremony. A delegate from the Sultan is tb attend the ceremony. Washington. February 11. Senator Smith said the people were sick of Congress and disgusted with the Jingo craze. Shanghai, February 11. i Thousands of rebels are ravaging Formosa. Madrid, Feb. 11. A great panic was caused in Madrid by the fall of an aerolite which shook the city from end to end. There was a vivid glare, followed in seventy seconds by a terrific report. Several buildings collapsed, and windows were shattered in all uirections. Many people were injured. Constantinople, Feb. 11. Mutah Pasha's son has been arrested here on a charge of belonging to the Young Turkey Party.