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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 66, 15 September 1897, Page 2

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(Per Press Association.) London, September 13. Thomas Sullivnn, the ex New Zealand sculler, cefrate d S. A. Kiuinet, of Iplesworth, over the Thames championship course. Sullivan led throughout nnd won by a hundred yards, Time, 22tniG8 35secs. Her Majesty the Queen lias presented I > the Emperor of Germany witJi a ma^oi liccnt album of Jubilee photographs. Maeras, September 13. Forty miners have been killed by an accident in the Champion Reef gold iniue Nr.w York, September 13. A band of cavalry utrikerH in Pittsbnry, Pennsylvania, headed by f>o women many of wlaom had babies in their arms came into roll'sion with the sheriff's officers. The women wore in a state of frenzy and several of their number clubbed the officers. Four women were arrested. Cairo, September 14. The Dervishes bave a strong force at Metemeh and are fortifyine Shablnoa. A gunboat harassed the retreat of the Dervishes from Berber forcing them to take to the desert. They abandoned many boat loads of provisions. The advance t>uard of the Egyptian army has occ jpied Rurber. Vienna, Sept. 13. The Emperor William of Germany is on a visit to the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary at Tolis, in Hungary. Athens, Sept. 13. Owing to the Turkish troops having secretly landed in Crete, tho foreign Admirals have forbidden Turkish troopships to remain in Cretan harbours. Constantinople, Sept. 13. The arrest of those suspected of being connected wit i the Young Turkish Party continues. Four hundred and twentythree have been exiled from the country n,nd sent to Tripoli.