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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 128, 28 November 1896, Page 2

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(Per Press Association.) London, Noy, 27. j Tbe War Office has decided to test the j utility of armoured motor cars to carry Maxim guns and reserve ammunition. Weiftter has hotly replied to Clarke's criticism of the British claims in Venezuela. News has been received from Capetown that Lord Roseinead (Sir Hercules Robin- j son) is ill, and it is reported that his condition is so serious that it causes great anxiety to his friends. The New Zealand hemp market re«« mains steady with prices unchanged. The Bovril Company was largely over subscribed, " Wag " Harding has challenged Gaudaur to row for the championship of the world and £250 aside. Obituary — Coventry Patmore, author, and Sir G. Napier Broome. Arrived — Celtic King, from Wellington ; sailed— lndraghiri, for Melbourne. Constantinople, Nov. 26. The Sultan is said to be delighted at the failure of the French scheme for placing the Porte's finances under European control. Tbe British cruiser Pique has been scut to the Philippines to reinforce the Daphne. The Embassies are sending foreigners to recruit the Cretan Gendarmerie, despite the Sultan's protest. Cairo, Nov. 27. The strength of the Egyptian Army is to be largely increased. Berlin, Nov. 27. Eight thousand dock laborers are on strike in Hamburg. The strike is now extending to other classes, and shippers htwe sent to England tor men to replace th» strikers. The dockers at Kiel are goinj^ on strike. i Tom Mann was expelled from Ham- ; burg. The strikers there are protesting against the importation of Italians. Calcutta Nov. 27. The Medical Board report the city is in an appallingly insanitary state, and condemn the Municipal body for its coudition. The Governor-General threatens to over ride the Municipal Council and to take the conduct of affairs out of its hands. Forty sepoys looted a Bazaar at Bawul Pindi in the north-west. Several were arrested. Paris, Nov. 26. Several of the leading French news papers urge that better relations bo established between France and Great Britain. Pretoria, Nov. 27. The Volksraad has passed a Bill to exclude aliens who do not possess a passport testifying they have means of support and ability to work.