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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 161, 9 January 1897, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

(Per Press Association.) London, January G. The Congress of nha Miners' Federation now being held at Leicester has passed a resolution approving of the proposal to nationalise land, minerals and railways. The motion of which notice had previously bnen given that the delegates to the Trade Congress should act on Dnionisfcs as opposed to Socialist line? was also adopted. H>nry Chaplin, President of tho Royal Gov< rnuierH Board of Trade who met with a serious accident in the hunting field is improving. L-.dy Scott, William AyloU and John Coc'.erson were sentenced to eighteen months each for libelling E'irl Russell. Tic Coroner's inquest touching the deaths of five men drowned by the sinking of the Orottiva iv Tilbury dock concluded yesterdnv. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the sinking of tin; steamer was due to an insufficient use of ballast tanks. Capetown, January 7. Tim Natal Government haye considered the resolution carried at the inou.-ter meeting recently held at Durban, prod -am;* a:,'nnKt the lundini; of two ship loads of Indian Coolii-s. The Government in reply, stale they me powerless to act m the muter. While depr. -citing the us-j ot violence to prevent tlie 1 Hiding of tlie Indians, the Government sympathisa with the movement a^'iinst Indian iiuoaiyration and hope to inrn duce )c-,';i.s!ii:ion to deal with the lines'; ion.