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Feilding Star, Volume 31, Issue 278, 31 May 1897, Page 2

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(Per Press Association.) London, May 29. The report of the Trust and Agency Company of Australasia shown thai tho profits totalled L 92.754. After declaring n dividend of 20 per oent the sum of L4G4 was carried forward. In tbe Derby betting Galtee More is a firm favourite at 3 to 1 on. Barney Barnato, the Sonth African millionaire who has been seriously ill, is recovering. The tenders for the South Australian loan included one for i 500,000 at 98, and another for iIOO.OOO at 98. The South Australian loan averaged £97 13s Bd. Tom Burrows, an Australian athlete, establiscd a new record of 30 hours for club-swinging. Lawton was the pre vious record-holder for swinging for 25 hours. The Admiralty Court has awarded the owners of tbe steamer -Eolus £1260 as salvage for towing the steamer Gulf of Bothnia into Lisbon, when she bocame disabled in a recent voyage from Australia to London. The death is announced of Mr Westley Richards, the famous gunmakor. A boat belonging to Oil S. Collingwood capsized iv Bantry Bay. Ireland, Six petty officers wero Idrowned. Nkw York, May 29. The Australian baseball team play a match at Chicago on Sunday week. Rome, May 30. The political fanatic who attempted to stab King Humbert at tbe races in Rome iv April, was sentenced to penal servitude for life. Berlin, May 30. The Sultan has presented the Emperor with a battory of six cannons captured from the Greeks.