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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 141, 14 December 1896, Page 2

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(Per Press Association.) Londox, Dec. 10. The shares in the Kapai mine have been allotted. Etumalea hag been entered for the Sundown Grand Prize in February. The North Western Railway Company his offered to meet the men who were dismissed und cod aider their claims reasonably. England has refused Turkey's request to negotiate for a new commercial treaty. The St, James' Gazette says the War Office proposes to add eight new battalions of infantry and 18 field batteries of 72 guns to the British army. December 13. It is expected the result of the international conference on the sugar duties now setting at Paris will be to greatly reduce the'coM; of sugar to consumers. Two deaths have occurred in London from tho effects of bubonic fever. Monte Video. Dec 12. The Maniari left for Loudou to-day. Meat in good condition. Capetown, December 13. The Labour Bureau at Johannesburg reports n. larpe increase of iho unetuDloyed espccinlly among those who have no trade. A procession of Roman Catholics attacked the Gorman Consulate at Delagoa because two Mussulman servants refused to uncover as it went by. Two German cruisers have been ordered to tlie port. There is much diverfiifcy of opinion in Capetown respecting the proposed ovation to Cecil Hbodes on his return from Matabeleland. Ouc sectiou of the community protest against a demonstration as fetish worship of one man. Madrid, Dec. 13. The Government admit the loss of 17,000 men in Cuba and the Phillippiße Islands. Maceo's medical adviser confirms the death of his patient, and the rejoicing in Spain continues. The Cnbacs assert Maceo was massacred while conferring with tho Marquis Almada. Washington', Dec. 13. President McKinley favors intimate and cordial commercial relations with Canada, but refuses to pledge himself to a reciprocal treaty. New York, Dec. 12. Penaror Nelson Dingley informs the Republican member ;if iho Legislature th'tt n session to consider thp tariff is inevitable, and he personally favours moderation. PiiEToniA, Dec. 12. The Volksr.iad ban been prolonged. Id his speech, President Kruger expressed pacific intentions towards the whole of Europe. Rome. Dec 12. His Holiuess the Pope has given audience to Archbishop Redwood, of Wellington, New Zealand. Reports instigated by the Government prove that the charity mods have been largely uspd fer political purposes, and thnt there had been :. lavish outlay by public officers under Signor Crispi'a Cabinet. St. Petersbubo, Dee. 12. It is stated the Russo Chieset treaty merely ensures Russia building and working the Siberian railway and its extension to Manchuria. Fifteen hundred arrests have been made in Moscow in order to prevent the students commemorating the Kbodinsky disaster. The Novosti newspaper considers tbafc the entente rordiale with Great Britain is largely desired by Russia. Berlin, Dec. 13. The Berline Tageblat gives currency to the rumor that ex-Sultan Marad, of Tnrkey, has escaped.