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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 283, 5 June 1896, Page 2

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ELECTION OF TWO RADICALS. ANTWERP WOOL SALES. ANOTHER GROWL FROM GER. MANY. DEATH OF SIR GEO. JOHNSON. (Per Press Association.) London, June 3. The election of the Frome division of Somerset, rendered necessary by the succession of the sitting member Viscount Weymouth to the title of Marquis of Bath, took place to-day and resulted in the return of Mr J. E. Barlow, the Radical candidate, who defeated Lord Thynne (Tory) by a majority of 279 votes. In the election for Wick, consequent on the resignation of Sir John Pender, Mr T. C. H. Tedderwick, Radical candidate, defeated Mr Smith, the Unionist, by a majority of 212 votes. The Antwerp v/00l sales open on the 9th instant. Nine thousand bales will be offered, of which seventy are Australian. Obituary— Sir George Johnson, a wellknown medical authority. The prospectus of the Tokaka Consuls mine is issued with a capital of £100,000, of which .£53,000 is offered to the public. Mr Murray, of the Treasury, has been appointed British delegate of the Conference, which melts of Friday i when they will merely decide upon witnesses. Berlin, June 4. i Speaking in the Reichstag, J-ferr Broos.- --| art declared that the peace of Europe was assured for a long time. The German Press exhibits an angry tone over the proclamation of Madagascar as a French colony. Paris, Juno 4. The China Government has authorised France to construct a railway from Ton. qnin to Lungchu. Washington, June 4. The Senate has passed a Bill, brought forward by the Populist Party, forbidding any further issue of interest - bearing bonds, without the consent of Congress.