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(Per Prens Association.) London, November 2. Tbo death is announced of Lieut. Col. Chard, V.C., of tbe Royal Eugineers, \ who was born in 1847, eutered the army in 1868, and is bent remembered as commander of tbe small force of 80 men who held 3000 Zulus at bay during a whole night at Rorke's Drift in the Zulu campaign of 1879. Derbyshire, at Glasgow, swam 100 yds in 60sec. Replying to enquiries made by Sir Andrew Clarke, Agent General for Victoria, the leading railway companies in Great Britain strongly advise direct departmental control over the supply of refreshments for railway travellers. Pakis, November 2. Tho Journal dos Debatn expresses the opinion that tbo Anglo-French Niger Commission will prove resultful of Fed eration. Cairo, November 3. Tho force of Egyptians to occupy Kansala, recently ceded by Italy numbers 2000, and a battery of artillery. Washington, November 2. The Convention entered into between Russia, America and Japan by which pelagic sealing is to be mspeuded, will be sigued on Friday. Ottawa, Noveiabcr 2. A petition has been subscribed to in Toronto asking luo Queen to permit an exhibition of the Jubilee gifts received by her, to be held in Canada.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 109, 4 November 1897, Page 2
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