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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 237, 9 April 1897, Page 2

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AMERICAN ELECTIONS. WAR PREPARATIONS. 1 (Per Press Association.) London, April 7. ' The employees of the North Eastern 1 Railway Company, who recently struck, < have agreed to submit the points in dispute to arbitration. In the House of Commons Sir John Gorst, Vice-President of the Committee of Council introduced a Bill providing for the yearly distribution of .£110,600 amongst the necessitous Board Schools. The Voluntary Education Bill ha 9 passed its final stages in the House of Lords. ' Professor Forbes, the electrician, reports that the Nile cataract can be utilised for general electric power supply available for the entire year, over a distance of several hundred miles, at a cost less than coal for factory and irrigation purpoaes. The Manchester Guardian states that, in the event of war the Government is prepared to send any army corps to tho Capo under the command of Sir Redvers Buller. In the House of Commons, in reply to Mr liogan's question in reference to the Australian irrigation colonies, Mr Chamberlain stated that he was unable to express any opinion as to the Mildura irrigation colony. The Emigrants' In formation Office was only able to issue warnings in answer to specific questions by intending emigrants. In the House of Commons tho Bill providing for marking imported agricul tural produco was read a second time and referred to a select committee. New York, April 7. I The Mayoral election in the State of ! Ohio resulted in heavy democratic gains, indicating a dislike for the new McKinley tariff. Many Bryanito candidates were successful. Capetown, April 7. Sir Gordon Sprigg, in the courso of a speech, eaid the policy of the Imperial Government with regard to South Africa was satisfactory to the Cape Government. Sir Gordon Sprigg, the Premier, ha« declined to produce in the Cape Parliament the letters which passed between the Cape and Imperial Governments regarding the closing of the drifts on thf Vai.l river in 1895 by the Transvaal authorities. He expressed the opinion that the production of the correspondence would noo tend to promote peace.