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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 283, 5 June 1897, Page 2

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.» (Per Press Association.) London, Jane 4. In the Honse of Commons the Employers Liability Bill was in committee. | Mr Chamberlain carried ao amendment permitting the commutation of pensions at the end of a year at tho request of . either the employer or tho workman, { aibitration to settle tho amount to be paid in li<*u of pension. The Standard suggests a chess match by cable should be arranged between the House of Commons and the Australian Parliamentary Team similar to the contest just concluded with the American Representatives. San Francisco, June 4. The Japanese Minister's reply to tho Hawaii Government in regard to the restriction on|Japanese immigration does not supply an excuse for the exclusion of the Japenese immigrants from Hawaii. The Oxford University will confer tho honorary title of Doctor of Laws upon the colonial Premiers. Capetown, Juno 3. Reports have been received that an epidemic is ravins in chiof Secococoenis' country in the Transvaal. The natives arc dyiug by hundreds, Ntw York, June 3. France has arranged for a monthly service with steamers between Tahiti in tho Society Group and the port of Tacoina, on Puget Sound, Washington Stata, in the north-western corner of the United States. Ottawa, June 4. In the Ser.atn a Miggestion hna bpen i put forward that tha Government should mnke overtures with the other British colonies, with the object of drawing closer ties with Engiand.