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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 236, 10 April 1896, Page 2

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O RUSSIA TO OBTAIN PORT ARTHUR. LI HUNG CHANG TO VISIT ENGLAND. RUSSIAN INTRIGUES AGAINST GREAT BRITAIN. (Per Prkss Association). London, April 8. The Daily News' St. Petersburg correspondent wires that Russia, expects Li Huug Chang will consent to the cession of Port Arthur. The Teachers' Conference, discussing Mr Gorst's Bill, condemned differential grauts for voluntary board schools The annual report of the North British and N.Z. Investment Society shows a profit of £-2010 A dividend of 6 per cent is recommended, £600 is carried to the reserve and .£226 forward. The President of the Scottish Academy, on behalf of Auckland, has purchased nine pictures. The English bankers have offered Italy a loan of twenty million sterling, but the offer has been declined. After attending the ceremony of the coronation of the Czar, Li Hnng Chang will visit the Premier of Great Britain. > Russia is said to be vainly urging Germany to cmbarass Englaud with respect to the occupation of Egypt. April 9. Shnrc-hofders in the English, Scottish nnd Australian Bank have approved of a Bill to ntnend the PcliPinn of recc;n«trnc tion as modified by Parliament, including me withdrawal of the proposed conversion of three. filths terminable sccmities into The Australian Mort^ago Land and Finniice Company's l-altsnce-shc-er. show-; is net profit of £07,738. A dmdf-nd of five per crnt was declared, :»rd i'27oS carried forward. Tlio directors in their n-pori Plato tlic.t Inrgc amuimls of fund-* to i 1 ulncli no fiinploymc-tit could be found has restricted {he profits. j Constantinople, April 9. | The Porte declares that Napp, the American missionary, is a guest of the Governor of Diarbekir. Ottawa, April 9. The Dominion House of Commons has held a continuous sitting of fifty-three hours on the Manitoba Schools Bill, and it is expected to last till .Saturday.