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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 255, 3 May 1897, Page 2

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iPcr Press Association l London', April of). Tlio Agents General Lave secured a stand for colonial visitors along tlio line of route of tho Queen's Jubilee Procession. The death 13 announced of Edwmd ' Fnirh'ekl, C.8., one of the Assistant Under Secretaries of tho Colonial Oilice. Tho Freo Presbyterian Church Synod has rejected a petition against lan Maclaren, who was recently cited by a minister to appear boioro the Synod on a charge of heresy. At the annual meeting of tho Shaw, Savill and Albion Co. tho report showed that the profits amounted to £21,910. A dividend of 5 per cent, was declared, and a sum of £2403 carried forward. Sir George O'Brien, successor to the late Sir Jntnes Thnrston as Governor of Fiji, will leave Vancouver for Fiji by the Aorangi. May 1. The Queen has left Cherbourg on her return to England. The American visible wheat supply is estimated at 52,:i00,000 bushels. Chief Justice Way has been .summoned to attend ad Windsor on Tuesday for the purpose of being sworn in a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Before the Transvaal Raid Committee Mr Chamberlain gave evidence that until the day bt .Tore the raid ho had no suspicion of anything in the nature of au armed invasion being intended. Tho Priucoss of Wales is appealing for Jubilee funds for the purpose of giving a week's dinners to the poorest residents in the London slums. St. Petersburg, May 1. The Emperor of Austria has left St. Petersburg on his return to Vienna, Capetown, May 1. The Cape Budget shows a surplus for the year of half a million, which is to be devoted to stamping out the rinderpest. Berlin. April 30. The Government has refused to prosecute Dr Carl Peters, who was recently dismissed from Hie Imperial service for ! cruelty to the natives of Hast Africa, on the. gronud that his conduct was not opposed to the native law. Mr Oscar Blank, a prominent Hamburg merchaut, visit-i Australia for the purpose of ascertaining its capacity for producing timber suitable fur German requirements. Mr Blank has sc-cuivd the contracts for paviug Hamburg and Cologne :iud for tallow wood and black butt required foi'jdeckiug ships. Home, May 1. News h;is been received tint a bund of Ethiopians massacred Capt. Botiogo, lender and several members of the lialinn EtiSG African Exploring Company. The rest of tlio party were captured by the natives.