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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 266, 15 May 1897, Page 2

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(Per Press Association.) London, May 13. I China is making arraDgemeuts with a ■* British syndicato for a loan of sixteen j million pounds. The Belfast Chamber of Commerce y has asked the Government to tost the ' l possibility of constructing a tunnel be- t tweon Ireland and Scotland. . < The Marquis of Lome presided at a dinner given by the Colonial Club last night to the Agent-General. Other promi Lieut Australians visiting London were present. Three hundred .sat down to dinner. During the proceedings a tele* gram was despatched to the Queen felicitating her upon her record reign. May 14. Tlig tenders for the Western Australian 3 per cent million loan were opened to day. Tho total ainonut tendered was £769 500. Tho London and Westminster Bank took up the balance at a miuimum of £95. Miss Frances Saville, a well known Austral iau vocalist and a daughter of the lato Madame Siraonsen, in ado a great success as Juliette in Gounod's opera " Romeo and Juliette," at Covent Garden. Gauutta, May, 14 Tho number of natives now employed ou reliof works in India, is 3,481,000. Paris, May 14. The Czar, writing to President Fauro condoling with the French nation on the charity bazaar disaster, referred to tho President as his very dear good friend. Berlin, May 13. The Government i 3 abolishing free exchanges, recently established aaa protost against the law preventing time dealing in corn and mining stocks, aa they were systematically evading tho law against speculation in the future Constantinoi'LE, May 14. Tho great Mahoinmedau teast of Bairam is bciug kept throughout Turkey.