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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 273, 23 May 1896, Page 2

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ENGLISH POLITICS. ! DISORDERLY SCENES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. (Per Press Association.) Berlin, May 21. The death is announced of Madame Clara Schumann, the eminent pianiste, aged 77. Constantinople, May 21. Macedonia is appealing to the Powers to insist on the reforms based on the treaty of Berlin, and declares the action of the Porte useless. London, May 21. Mr Gladstone declines to intervene , between the dissenters of the Irish Party. Mrs Watt has obtained a decree nisi against her husband, Hugh Watt, described as as a gentleman whom it is alleged attempted to bribe the Premier of South Australia during his recent visit there. Mr Gladstone, writing upon the subject of the Voluntary Schools Bill, blames the Irishman and Little Dissenters more, but the Parnellites most of all. The Commons sat 20 hours continu ously. There were disorderly scenes, and several members were expelled. The great wheel at Earlscourt, 300 f t' high, stopped suddenly, and 73 passengers seated in the cars which could not be reached, were imprisoned for 16 hours. New York, May 21. A steamer called The Friend has sailed from here for Cuba, taking 2000 rounds of ammunition, 500 rifles and a quantity of dynamite. Cairo, May 21. Cholera has broken out here and 29 deaths have been recorded. The disease is spreading in Upper Egypt.