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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 79, 30 September 1896, Page 2

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Per Press Association.) London, Sept. 28. Barnard, artist, was burned to death through smoking iv his bedroom at Wimbledon. The rebels in the Philippine Islands now number 15,000. Thoy are reported to have killed 100 monks, several of j whom they buried alive. Colonel Rhodes, cousin of Cecil Rhodes j has retired fron the Army. I September 29. \ A meeting of land, mining, and I finance companies' delegates, who repre- j se.nted an aggregated capital of twenty- j five millions, protested against the Menzies Railway in Western Australia starting at the Southern Mine instead of at Coolgardie, as that step was injurious to mining, and indicated a disregard for the interests of capLal. Australasian rabbits are selling freely for forward delivery at Is each. Hares i too have improved in price, and are quoted at os. Tho increased price is due to the raiu stopping shooting. Paris, Sept. 28. The Meteorological Conference at Paris has approved of Wragge's scheme for the establishment of permanent observatories upon Mt. Koscuisk ), in New South Wales, and Mt. Wellington, at Hobart. "Washington, Sept. 28. The Leadvi!l<' strikers have resumed ut the old rate uf wages. St. Pktkrsiicro, Sept. 29. Eighteen Nihilists, including several eminent professors, have beeu arrested in St Petersburg. Bkulin, Sept. 29. Five thousaud dockers haye struck at Hamburg for an increase in wages.