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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 47, 24 August 1896, Page 2

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RELEASE OF ONE OF JAMESON'S OFFICERS. MORE OUTRAGES IN CRETE. INCITING REBELLION IN SPAIN. TWO NEWSPAPERS SUPPRESSED. ARREST OF A STRIKE AGITATOR. THE WAR IN CUBA. MURDER OF A FRENCH TRADER. (Per Press Association.) London, August 28. Captain Coventry, one of Dr Jameson's officers who was sentenced to five months, afterwards placed in an infirmary, has been released on account of ill health. The Cretans have burned 30 Massulmap villages. The Powers are pressing the Christians to moderate their demands. Li Hung Chang has sailed for New York. Rumoured that the Marquis of Duffererin is likely to succeed Earl Cadogan as Lord. Lieutenant of Ireland. Major Lothaire is said to have de. stroyed two letters written by the trader Stokes to the British Consul after he had been sentenced to death, in which facts appeared wbieh would have proved Stokes not guilty of the charge on which he was ordered to be shot. A French trader named Ossi was murdered at Mallicolo, New Hebrides. He gave the natives some dynamite cartridges for the purpose of killing fish. One of them was injured by the explosion, and hacked Ossi to pieces in revenge. Berlin, August 23. The German Press are unanimous in their opposition to the Ministry, and protest against a responsible coterie defying Parliament. [This is ambiguous.— Ed. Feildino Stab.] Lima, August 23. : Rich gold has been discovered at Carbay, in Peru. Among the specimens obtained is a 251 b nugget. Cairo, August 22. Two Cairo newspapers have been sup--1 pressed for publishing comments regard- ' ed as an insult to Queen Victoria. The British advance on Dongola is expected to occupy until somewhere i about October. , Madrid, August 23. A manifesto has been scattered broad- ' cast over Barcelona inciting a rebellion ' to prevent the Cuban reinforcements ' embarking. The conspiracy is alleged to be fomented by tbe Cubans. Numeri ous arrests bave been effected in coni nection with this movement in Madrid. Senator Sagasta urges that the Span- ' ish operations against the insurgents in i Cuba should be carried on with greater , vigor, in order to show that Spain bae i no fear of American interference. > Rome, August 23. ; Enormous damage was caused by the I floods in Italy, especially at Massa and • Carrara. i General Valles, who is with the Itali ian force in Abyssinia, is treating with . King Menelik for tbe release of Italian ; prisoners, and for the conclusion of a . treaty of peace. t Washington, August 28. 7 The Secretary of the Interior has re I signed out of sympathy with Mr Bryan i The American bankers have imported i one million of gold chiefly from Paris. Antweep, Angnst 22. i After being warned of his expulsion I from the country on a charge of inciting 1 men to strike, Ben Tillet has been ar j rested. , Pabis, August 22. j Automatic cars are now running about i the city like cabs.