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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 179, 1 February 1897, Page 2

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(Per Press Association.) London, Jan. 29. A farmer nas been arrested at Scarborough on a charge of having committed 17 forgeries in America. The sum which he is charged with having obtained by I this means aggregates 1,000,000 dollars. Paris, January 29. | M. Muravieff, the Russian Foreign Minister, has arrived in this city, and bad a long interview with President Faure ami M. Hanotaux, French Minister for Foreign Affairs. Washington, January 30. Hyman Gage, of Chicago, a banker, has accepted the secretaryship of the Treasury in the McKinley administration. Sherman is confident that the Senate will approve of the Anglo American Arbitration Treaty. January 31. Mr McKinley has appointed Senator IJger. Secretary for War. The Foreign Committee of the Senate recommend the ratification of the Arbitration Treaty with amendments omitting King Oscar as umpire, and excluding, except by special agreement, questions n fleeting foreign and domestic relations with either country with the other Powers. Mr Olney and £ir Julian Pauncefote have signed a convention agreeing to the appointment of a Commission to demarcate the Alaskan boundary. Cairo, January 29. The Dervishes have abandoned their camp at; Agordat, and have retreated. A body of natives friendly to the British is pursuing them. Athens, January 31. The students who rioted and garrisoned the University, have now quitted the institution and the Rector has resigned his position. Pretoria, Jan. 31. President Kruger, referring to the anxieties expressed by Mr Chamberlain as to the state of affairs in the Transvaal remarked : " Let Mr Chamberlain state definitely that the promises made to the Uitlanders have not been kept."