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♦■ I (Per Press Association.) Vienna, May 19. Obituary — Arch-Duke Charles of Ans- I tria. London, May 20. An ex-convict, named Seaman, has ! been sentenced to death for the murder of Ledy, and old Jewish gentleman, and bis servant on April 6th. The Cornish fishermen continue to molest the boats from Lowesloft, and the troops had to intervene to preserve order. An Anglo-Egyptian Company has undertaken to construct a railway from Massowah to Kassala at a cost of 88 million francs. Prempeh's envoys the Ausah brothers who were tried on a charge of forging credentials have been acquitted. The total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,460,000 quarters ; for the Continent 1,270,000 quarters. The American visible supply is estimated at 75,100,000 bushels. Shares — National Bank of New Zealand, 1£ ; Bank of New Zealand 4 per cent, guaranteed stock 105 ; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company 4 per cent, prior lien debentures 98£. Washington, May 20. McKinley's ambiguous attitude upon the currency question disturbs business in the States.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 271, 21 May 1896, Page 2
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