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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 41, 17 August 1896, Page 2

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.*_ .. (Per Press Association.) London, August 15. The Colonial Office regards the difficulty in Ashantee as easily settled. The funeral ceremony of the late Sir John Millais takes place at St. Paul's on Tuesday. Parliament has been prorogued. Sir Charles Dilke has urged au increaso in the fleet in view of German hostility and a possible combination of the Powers. Mr Jackson has been chosen chairman of the committee to enquire into the affairs of the South African Chartered Company and the raid of Dr Jameson. In reply to a question in the House, Mr Balfour stated that it was expected negotiations in connection with the Venezuelan difficulty would begin at an early date, and he had very little doubt but that a satisfactory result would ensue. The King of the Belgians, it is said intends to express his disapproval of the Lotbaire episode. Mr Goschen, replying to Sir C. Dilke, said that next year if ship building decreased expenditure would bo increased in other directions especially in the enrolment of additional seamen The Parnellites protest, against the convention to be held in Dublin next month as a factionist assemblage and state they will themselves convene a meeting in October. Mr Curzou, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs stated in the House the final Dutch reply respecting the Costa Hica Packet case will be delivered by the arbitrator on November lltb. A manifesto issued by Mr Wilson, Secretary of the Sailor's and Firemen's Union, demands a minimum wage and refuses to unload ships from British Continental Ports employing von Unionists. The manifesto is regarded as an effort to increase the ranks of the Unionists and the employers are preparing to resist. Li Hung Chang had a long interview with Mr Gladstone at Hawarden. Paius, August 16. Great preparations are being made for the Czar's visit; to Paris in October. The Russian and French fleets will be reviewed at Cherbourg. Pretoria. August 15. The Volksraad grants the franchise to five thousaud Uitlauders who supported the- Transvaal Government during Jameson's raid.