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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 274, 26 May 1897, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

(Per Press Association. l Maduii), May '20. An excilud debato took place in the Senate over the decision of the United States Senate giuutiug equal rights to . Spain aud fuba The discussion ended | iv a brawl in the lobby, and Senator Tetuan struck Senator Comas a violent j blow for blaming the Government. j Rome, May 23. ! T)i. ; Chnmbf-r ci'Depniit^ by n nutjoritv of 89, ban approval oi Count Kndini's foreign policy. | C.u-etowx, May 23. ; A general law affecting aliens is bping j prepared in the Cnpo Colony, Natal, the Orange Free Mtate and tho Trnnsva-i), the object b«ing the exchisicn of undtsir | tible immigrants. j Lom^on", -May 23 ' The South Australian loan has becu I favourably received, ami its success is j assured. The uut minimum is £Q-l 12s. j South Australian 3 per cent stock . to day at 97 j. Tho London directors of the Great | r.ouldtT Mining Company, Western Australia, have accepted tho suggestion : that the Australian shareholders should nominate U\o Advisory Board for Ado laidc to bo cli cttvl at the annual meet ing. It also approved ol other reforms suggested in Australia. Mr Balfonr's I! 11 for relieving the. Irish Poor Laws were strongly supported by Mr Cnrson (M.l', for Dublin University) and Messrs Tim llt.ily ni:d .John ltrdmotul. The rcli' f to be groused to tho l.uiillord.-i v.ith rrsppct to th.> poor i\it<s will iunouut to I'2SO,'KXI, biiJ the roliel'to j tenants tn f 400,000. No .soiieuio for tho i ri-lief of Ireland lias bcr-n received with such univerfiil approval us tn the proposal in the Hill, which it is considnrr-d meets ninny of iho p!f-<lgps as tn Irish reform. Nuttall, the Kng'.i>ih champion swim nic-r, nnnouuees that lie is willing to swim Percy Cavil, the amatt,ur champion of New South Wales, who recently left for lOnglaiiil to take part iv the lvcconl lu.ign swimming events, for any sum over -L2OO a side. C.vir.o, Ma}' 25. The Dcvvi.siic;; am raiding lokar, a fortified town of Upper Ethiopia, 70 miles south of Suakim.