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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 143, 16 December 1896, Page 2

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(Per Press Association.) London, Dec. 14. The Anglo - American Arbitration Treaty decided all disputes for five years, including Alaska find excepting the Venezuelan and Behring Sea. The citizens of all shades of religion and politics in Cock carried a resolution that it is imperative to reduce the Imperial taxation. Lord Castlotown declared it was cruel taxation that lost America. Dillon state* the Irish members will re'urn to their old po*>non, and support the party which places the autonomy of Lehujd in the forefront of politics. The Council uf Members at Dublin unanimously demanded the immediate uttenlion of Government to the excessive taxation drawn from Ireland, and claimed tho r<j!.tovtitiou of money escracted tcom the country. Mr Reeves lectures on New Zealand ut tho Imperial Institute. The Time* correspondent pays a rebellion in Macedonia is being plannpd for next year after first fomenting a rising in Crete. New York, Dec. 14. In the long distance cyclists tournament won by Hales, many of the competitors suffered remarkable privations. Doctors, referring to the contest, declared it to bo a sickening exhibition of brutality. Ottawa, Dec. 15. The Dominion Government is asking tho United States to mutually relax the i cattle quarantine regulations. j The Toronto Navy League petition England for the protection of trade routes and the partial manning of cruisers by colonists. Washington, Dec. 15. Tlie "Jingo" members of the Senate are tabling strong-worded motions denouncing tho action of Spain in Cuba. It is stated the Moccos were shot while leading 2,000 rebels to an attack. St. PETEnsKuna, Df-c. 15. Foriy Moscow students have been arrested and the political documents in their possession seized. Paris, Dec. 15. Godard aad Surccmf, two French aeronauts, will attoropt to reach the North Pole under the auspices of the Freuch press. Rome. Dec 15. The Italian Ministry report that of additions to the navy sanctioned in June 1887 twenty < ight ironclads and sixty one torpedo boafcs have not been built. tiKBLIN, Dec. 15. The Berlin Post confirms the report that MeneleU has ceded a naval coaling station to Jinssia between Obok and Erythrca. The paper states Russia intends to secure a tooting in Somaliland I to assist in the Opposition to English designs in A Erica.