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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 103, 28 October 1896, Page 2

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(Per Press Association.) London, October 26. The choicest quality of Danish butter is quoted at 126s to 130 a, and the lowest at 108s to 118s. _ I Consequent upon the recent rise in I wheat and flour, price of bread in London has risen one half '-penny. October 27. Lord Alexander Paget died suddenly of heart disease while shooting at Drumlaurig Castle. Freights to Australia by sailing vessels have advanced by 2s 3d per ton and by steamer 2s 6d per ton for weight and 5s by measure. Arrived— lndraghiri from the Bluff (August 30thj. Canada and the United State? are each sending 200 tons of butter weekly to England. Australian batter is selling at from 112s to 114s per cwt. A few parcels have been sold at 116s. Berlin, October 27. Bismarck's revelation has been hotly discussed in Berlin and Vienna. The general impression is that it will tend to weaken the Triple Alliance, Baron Rieltrofer succeeds Dr Kayser, who recently resigned office as director of the office of Foreign Affairs, owing to the opposition of the German Colonial | party. Vienna, Oct. 27. M. I. Tschigarin, a Russian player, won the chess tournament, with Charonset a close second. New York, October 26. By a railway collision at St. Louis, nine persons were killed and twenty severely injured. Two elevators, containing over one million bushels of wheat, were destroyed by fire in Chicago. Pekin, October 26. Li Hung Chang has been appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs. Paris, October 26. Obituary —M. Challomel la Cour, a well-known French Statesman.