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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 93, 16 October 1896, Page 2

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.» (Per Press Association.) Washington, Oct. 14. An upward tendency in the price of grain is destroying the chances of the return of Mr Bryan, the Democratic candi* date for the Presidency. Paris, Oct. 14. The revolt in Madagascar has become general. Shanghai, October 14. Chin» has entrusted France with the rebuilding of the arsenal in Fuchan. LiONDon, October 14. Sir Vernon Harcourt denies the rumour that he intends to resign. SrM, Hicks Beach, Chancellor of the the Exchequer, declares the capture of Dongola to be the stepping stone of Khartoum when the financial obstacles are removed. Mr Playford retains the Agent-General-ship of South Australia till June. October 15. Hugh Wall, in a letter to the Morning Post, urges Mr Chamberlain to reconsider the Letters Patent of the Northern Territory of South Australia since Indians and Chinese are excluded. The Hon. G. N. Curzon, in the course of his address at Glasgow, said he thought it was certain that the British flag would ere long float over Khartoum. The committee of the National Federation, in recognising Lord Rosebery's signal services to the Liberal party, consider it would be unwise to convene the Council of the Federation while the heat and excitement of the present trouble prevails. In the course of an address, Sir Michael C. Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, expressed his confidence as to his estimate of the surplus for the year being realised. The Hon. G. N. Curzon, Parliamentary Secretary of the Foreign Office, speaking at Glasgow declared that the Armenian agitation had neither modified nor fortified the Government policy. The rela*« tions of England with Russia were cordial and he hoped that they would be enabled to work on common lines with regard to Turkey and Armenia. October 15. Press and alien laws are being promulgated in the Transvaal. Constantinople October 14. Mr W. H. Wrench, C.M.G., British Commercial Attache and Consul is dead. St. Petersburg, Oct. 15. It is expected that Vorontzoff Dastroff will succeed Prince Labanoff. Cairo, Oct. 15. It is reported the Arab chief Bisbara died in the desert during the retreat from Dongola. Berlin, October 15. The Kruez Zeitung declares that if Great Britain will surrender the Transvaal and Rhodesia to Germany the latter would side with the British iv retaining the occupation of Et'vot.