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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 259, 7 May 1897, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN cables.

«. l Per Press Association } London, May 4. A larpe number of leading colonials attended the funeral of Sir William Robinson at Woking. Sir John Forrest sent a wreath on behalf of Western Australia. Official papers published show that Mr W. P. Schreiner, late Attorney-General at the Cape, regarded the closing ofthe Vaal drifts as a breach of the Convention of 1884. It was also shown tbat Schreiner concurred in the suggestion of Mr Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, that the Cape should pay half the cost of the military operaiions. May 6. The provisions of tho Employers' Liability Bill baye spread dismay among the trades unions throughout Britain, The Miners' Eight Hours Bill, in* troduced to the Customs by Mr Allon, member for Newcastle-under-Lyme, was rejected by a majority of forty-one. Wray, the Australian sculler, lias challenged Gaudaur for the championship of the world. May 5. A. Johnson, an Australian draughtsman employed in the Admiralty Department, has committed suicide by shooting bimself with a revolver It is stated that bis father was ruined by the late Australian financial crisis. Washington, May 6. Tho International Postal Congress was opened here, tho delegates present representing sixty countries. Capetown, May 6. The Cape Government admit that Professor Koch's cure for rinderpest has failed.