HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.
PROLONGED DROUGHT IN SPAIN. FAILURE OF THE CROPS. TURKEY PAYS AN INDEMNITY. {Per Press Association). Rome, April 29. General Baldissera has been directed to retain Kassala until the Autumn, when the final decision as to occupation has been decided. New York, April 30. A Spanish gunboat has captured the American schooner Competitor, which was carrying arms to Cuba. Paris, April 30. M. Meline's political programme provides for the maintaining of the Republican solidarity form of succession and the liquor laws, direct taxation, the establishment of a Colonial army, and a modified Income Tax. Madrid, April 30. A prolonged drought is ruining the Spanish crops. London, April 30. Lieut John Francis Campbell is appointed Master of the Western Australian mint. The Queen has left Nice. The Porte has agreed to pay 24,000 pounds (Turkish) as an indemnity for the outrage on the embassies at Jeddab.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 254, 1 May 1896, Page 2
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