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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 15, 17 July 1897, Page 2

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(Per Press Association.) London, July 15. Mr Justice A'il'iams has sanctioned I the roconHfcmciicu scheme of the New South Wales Mortgage and Loan Agency Company. I July 16. | Mr Balfour has abandoned the attempt to pass the Criminal Law Evidence Bill this session. Tbe Workmen's Compensation Bill passed its final stages by a majority of 30. The Queen has conferred the Most Noble Order of the Garter upon Ear) Derby. The Berlin correspondent of the Standard reports that King Menelik of Abys- i siuia has ordered a force of 20,000 soldiers to proceed to the Upper Nile to operate with tbe British expedition against the Devishes. The Kight Hon A. .T. Mundella, M.P. for Sheffield, and President of the Board of Trade in Mr Gladstone's last two Ministeries, bas had a stroke of paralysis. Lady Scott, who in January last was sentenced to eight months imprison meut for ciimiually libelling her son in law, Lord Russell, has been released. The mombors of the Junior Carlton Club (Conservative) banqueted a large number of colonial visitors, including the Premiers of Queensland, Cape Colony and Newfoundland, and Sir John Hall. CArETO'WN, July 16. Eeports from Salisbury states the Hussars have cleared the Uugani district, Ma^honaland, of rebels. Tbe troopers killed 40 rebels at Fort Charter. The Cape newspapers concur in the Transvaal Raid Committee's report,