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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 260, 8 May 1897, Page 2

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(Per Preis Association I : Pretoria, May 7. j The Volksraad hat repealed the Alien [mmigration Law on the ground of the r abjections raised by the adjacent states, j j London, May 7. | , Large quantities of shell and three , t million cartridges have been shipped to ( Capetown. ■ 3 In the House of Commons, Mr Knox, , member for Londonderry City, submitted a motion affirming the desirableness of granting relief to Irish farmers on similar lines to the English Act pftßged in 1896. After a debate the motion was rejected. Roche and O'Halloran, two cricketers who played for Victoria last season, have bean engaged by the Marylebone Club and are now qualified to play for the Middlesex county. In connection with the Select Committee enquiry into the Jameson Transvaal raid, the Eastern Telegraph Co. has demurred to the request to produce copies of telegrams despatched by the Hon. Cecil Rhodes to Mr F. Rutherford Harris, the South Africa Co.'s agent at the Capo, who was in London at the time. The Canadian Government has announced that New South Wales is entitled to preference treatment under the proposed new Tariff Bill. The Secretary of State says that when the matter was brought under the attention of Mr Paterson, the Controller of Customs, it was decided that the lower tariff extended to New South Wales.