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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 208, 6 March 1896, Page 2

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«. LORD ROSEBERRY AND THE ENGLISH NAVY. THE NORFOLK ISLAND SCANDAL. (Per Press Association"). rfioNDON, March 4. The American visible supply of wheat is 94,500,000. Fouv and a half thousand unmuzzled dogs have been destroyed in London. The evicted tenants of the Ponsonby Smith Barry estates have been reinstated. The forecast of Sir ,7. Pollock's statement of British case over the Venezuela boundary dispute states that British rights to Essequibo is overwhelming and based on the effective possession. The Hon. Chamberlain states New South Wales has requested to be allowed to administer Norfolk Island because justice was partial and crime weut unpunished, and further, that the island is in a retrogade state. Tho Agents-General are sending to their respective Governments for authority to support Laurie's Marriage Bill, and are discussing whether they should apply to the Treasury to forego the Income Tux when it is already paid in the colonies by money investors and the colonies. There is an agitation in Ottawa to forward the Hon. J. Chaniberlnin's plans for the Post-Atlantic subsidy of £190,000 annually. Lord Roseberry, speaking in the Lords, said it was a necessity to possess the strongest navy. The question was outside politics, and belonged to Englishmen all the world over. The newspapers applaud the Ex-Pre-mier's advocacy of the establishment of a navy dominant. Pahis, March 5. President Faure met the Czarewitch at Nice. Extreme cordiality was shown on both sides.