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Feilding Star, Volume XX, Issue 112, 10 November 1898, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright. Lo:si;ON, November 9. The Board of Irade returns for Octo her show that the imports decreased by £4-13,090, and that the exports increased by £579,967. The deaths are announced of MiDavid Ames Wells, the American polit ical economist, and former Commissioner of Revenue, aged 70, and Mr T. B. Pot tcr, president of the Cobdeu Club, and formerly member of the House of Commons for Rochdale, aged 81. Mr Richard C. McLanrin, a New Zealander, won a Fellowship at St. John's College, Cambridge. The retiring Lord Mayor of London (Lieutenant-Colonel the Right Hon. Horatio Davis, M.P.), has been created a K.O.M.G. The Australian team which is to visit England next season is to receive half the gate-money in the test matches. Rio dk Janhiro, November 7. Sentences varying from 11 to '60 years imprisonment have been passed upon the conspirators who recently attempted to assassinate Dr Prudcntc do Monies, President of Brazil. JJaxukok, November 7. A body of Siamese police and solchVrs have pillaged a French church here. Washington, November 9. It appears that the cruise ■ Maria Teresa, which fell into the hands of the Americana after the battle of Santiago, did not founder off the const of Bahama, as previously reported. She lies stranded at Cat Island, in the Bahama Group. St. John's November 8. The Hon. Alfred vcrinc, ReceiverGeneral in the Newfoundland Cabinet, has resigned his portfolio at the request of Sir Herbert Murray, Governor, on the ground that he acted as legal adviser to Mr R. G. Reid, a well known Mont real contractor, during the passage of a railway contract which transferred the railway and telegraph systems, to Mr Reid. Bombay, November 9. India has adopted the Imperial penny postage scheme.