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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 107, 2 November 1897, Page 2

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(Per Press Association.) London, Noy. 1. A fire destroyed the depot «f Carter, Paterson and Company carriers and forwarding agents, Clerkenwell, London. Five hundred horses in a building of the firm were rescued with difficulty. Arthur Mosely Channel, Q C., Recorder of Rochester, has been raised to the Bench in succession to the Hou Sir Roland Vaughan Williams. Constantinople, October 31. The Porte has informed the Powers that it objects to the appointmrnt of Colonel Scbaeffer, of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, as Governor of Crete. New York, October 31. 50,000 artisans will follow Henry George's funeral. Cairo, October 31. Kassala, which was handed o*er by Italy to the Egyptian Government, is to be garrisoned by Egyptian troops. Berlin, October 31. Germany has made a claim to Gandf, a native West African Sultanago embracing territory on both banks of the Niger River, alleging that Great Britain has no treaty with the Sultan. Emperor William has antberisrd Prmce Hohenlohe, Chancellor of the German Empire, to submit a measure for reforming military and judicial procedure. Pretoria, Nov. 1. Dr Leyds, Transvaal Secretary of State, has arranged to obtain a supply of native labor from Delagao Bay territory for the mines in the Transvaal, at a reduced rate of wages. Havannah, Nov. 1. The party in Cnba favoring autonomy has decided to support General Bianes. Ottawa, November 1. The Canadian Government has virt ually concluded the contract with the Beaver Hue of steamships for a weekly mail service between Liverpool and St. John's, New Brunswick, in tbe winter months, and with Montreal as a port of call in the summer.