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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 29, 3 August 1897, Page 2

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(Per Press Association.) London, August 1. Four hundred Welsh Fusilers have sailed for Crete, taking with them a supply of stores aud provisions. Tbe engineers' strike is extending to Bolton, Nottingham Sir William Wedderburn, M.P. for Banffsbire, apologised to the House of Commons for introducing Professor Gokblee to the conference room, where ' the latter made statements about the i conduct of the British troops iu India, | which he apologised for. i Tbe official visits of tbe colonial Premiers to England have now concluded. Mr Escombe, Premier of Natal, bas '< sailed on his return journey. The King of Siam, who is at present in England, visited Harrow, and dis played great interest in th« school. I Ottawa, August 2. Sir Wilfrid Laurier , Premier of Canada I has been created a Grand Officer of tbe i French Legion of Honour. Calcutta, August 1. Crowds of natives are intently watching Bal Ganganbar Tilaks' trial. They assemble iu the roadway and courthouse. Intense excitement is displayed. August 2. The European members of the Indian bar decline to defend Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Capetown, August 2. The Bechuanas' position at Twaiskloor bas been stormed and Lukegautjes, the rebel leader, killed. Tbe chief Galisbw* was wounded, but managed to escape to tbe mountains, where he is now hiding. Pretoria, August 2. Definite charges have been made in Johannesburg that the Transvaal Government sent supplies of guns and ammunition to tbe Matabeles both before and after Jameson's raid.