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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 159, 7 January 1897, Page 2

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(Per Press Association.) London, Jan. 4. The Right Hon. Sir Edward Kay, one of the Lord Justices of the High Court of Appeal itbe Supreme Court of Judicature), has resigned. He will be succeeded by Sir J. W. Chitty, one of the Judges of the Chancery Division. January 5. Princess Louise is recovering from her recent indisposition. Sir Edward Clarke, addressing his constituents at Plymouth, supported a Commission on the financial relations of Ireland. The agitation is arousing great interest in England, and the Irish claims are generally being vigorously contested. The Financial News, in discussing the proposal of the Queenslaud Government to issue a new loan of two million three hundred and twenty-four thousand pounds at three and a half per cent, considers the step untimely, biit advises the Government to declare that the money is not intended to prop the Queensland National Bank. Henry Chaplin, President oftheLiOcal Government Board, was seriously in jured by being thrown from his horse while hunting at Trcntham Hall, the seat of the Duke of Sutherland, in Staffordshire. Berlin, January 5. Posen and other grain centres in Germany are making similar protests against the law controlling time dealing in corn, as have been made by the Berlin Exchange. The authority of the German Courts of Honour has been extended, so as to include challenges to duels, whether officer or civillian but tbe public consider them still not sufficient to put a stop to duelling. The Emperor William has issued an edict which, while not forbidding duels, declares many of them needless, and advises officers to adopt a more conciliatory attitude toward those whom they feel aggrieved with. Mr Smalley, New York correspondent of the Times, states Senator Woolcott will visit the States of Europe at an early date as McKinley's unofficial envoy. The object of Woolcotfc's mission is to promote an international hi metallic conferenco. Constantinople, Jan. 5. Despite th 6 promise made by the Sultau to tbe French atid Italian Embassies, the Dragomans or interpreters of these powers have been excluded from the trial of Colonial Mazhar Bey who is charged with the murder ot Father Salvator at the Convene of Jenidji Kale in 1895. New York, January 5. It now transpires that the scuttling of the Commodore was effected by Spanish agents, A survivor, suspected of assisting in the work, is being closely watched. Stephen Crane, novelist and auther of " The Red Badge of Courage " ( who sailed in tbe Commodore as the ! special reporter of a New York paper, escaped from the vessel at the last moment in a small boat. Congress passed au enactment abolishing the death penalty in 55 out of 60 offences on the federal criminal code. Capetown, January 5. Reports have been received from Vryburge, a town in Bechuanaland 124 , miles north of Kimberley, that the natives have murdered a trader named , Robinson. Fears are entertained that the Battlaros tribe has revolted. A monster meeting held at Durban, Natal, passed a resolution demanding , that the Government shall compel two , shiploads of Indian coolies to return whence they came, and prevent the en- , trance of such immigrants in furure. The residenta further resolved to prevent those on board landiug. Tokio, January 6. The Japanese Government has pur- • chased the cruiser Almirante Baroza I from the Brazilian Government.