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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 85, 7 October 1896, Page 2

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«. (Per Press Association) London, Oct 5. The Marquis of Salisbury lias been decorated with the Grand Cordon of the Russian Order of St. Andrew. Raines and Kierney, two of Tynan's gang, have sailed from Antwerp for New York. Mr Byron Reid, M.P. for East Bradford, who was recently injured in a carriage accident, has succumbed to the injuries sustained. Tlio suspension of Payne, the Sydney cyclist, is referred back to the Newcastle Board and will probably be removed. Stephenson, the New Zealand sculler, defeated Drummond on the Tyne, over the mile course by four lengths. Musgravo has arranged for twenty Australian baseball players to visit America next spring to play a series of matches. October 6. China has authorised a Russian Railway in Northern Manchuria which will cross Amoor and proceed direct to Vladivostock, but lias refused to permit the construction of a branch to the Liotoug Peninsula. Washington, Oct. 6. It is reported that Lord Salisbury and Mr Olney have exchanged notes, advaucing the principles which are to govern the Venezuela dispute. Th(situation generally is now clear though the dispute is not yet settled. Rome, October 5. The Military Commission report that the island of Sardinia is the piyot of tlic lta!i;iu martime defence and urgently advise that it should be fortified. j