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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 151, 28 December 1896, Page 2

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(Per Press Association.) London, Dec. 27. _ The Spectator advocates the expenditure of fifty millions in five years on tbe construction of warships in order to con vince France that it is hopeless to compete with the increasing strongth of the British navy, Col. Henry White aDd Col. Grey, two of Jameson's party who were sentenced in July to five months imprisonment, without hard labor, for the part they took in the raid, haye been released. The St. James' Gazette suggests that I the Irish whiskey duty shonld be applied, as in a similar case in France, to purposes of local government. Her Majesty has approved of the retention by J. G. Ward of the title of Honorable. The St. Mawes Castle has been posted as missing. She is a small steamer of 75 tons, which left Liverpool for Fre mantle (W.A.) in March and Capetown on Jnly llth. It is likely that the interest on postal deposits will be reduced to 2"- per ceut. The Times considers it quite clear that Russia has secured a short cut through Manchuria, and that the commercial advantages thus received over land contravenes Britain's most favoured nation commercial interests. Teheran, December 25. The late Shah left £4,000,000. His successor has decided to devote onetenth of it to public purposes. Capetown, December 25, Lord Rossmead has summoned a brigade of Griqualand volunteers to suppress the outbreak of Taungos, who fired on the police because they shot a herd of cattle affected by the rinderpest. Two hundred Kimberley police cooperate. Calcutta, Dec. 24. The plague has appeared at Kurachie and is increasing at Bom bay. Berlin, Dec. 24. The decision of the French army authorities to introduce the Canet gun will probably compel Germany to improve her artillery at a cost of two hundred million marks. Athens, This Day. Terrible floods bave occurred in Northern Greece. Many wero drowned Paris, Dec. 24. General Ballot proposes to add another battalion to the hundred and forty five infantry regiments.