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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 10 June 1901, Page 3

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

[by ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.] (PBE PBHSS ASSOCIATION.) Mrs H’Kinley Suffering from Blood Poisoning. London, June 9. Mrs M’Kinley is suffering from blood poisoning, the result of a whitlow Anglo-French Courtesy. The French Minister of Marine, has authorised Arnold Forster, the British Parliamentary Secretary of Admiralty, to inspect the arsenal at Toulon. Sugar Imports. In the House of Commons, Chamberlain explained in connection with the Imperial vetoing of the Sugar Works Guarantee Bill, that Government considered the Queensland measure had many objectionable features on the grounds both of principle and policy. The disqualification was based solely on the clause relating to the claim which te excluded British-Indian subjects solely * because of difference of race and color, and was moreover offensive to the Japanese. The American Cup. Received this day at 9. a.m. ' New Yoek, June 9. Owing ‘to a rupture between T. W. Lawson, owner of the yaohfc Independence * and the New York Yacht Club, the Independence will not compete for the American Cup. A French Duel. Received this day at 11 26 a m. London, June 9, A duel at Paris between Max Regis, the notorious ex Mayor of Algiers, and Lobordesque, a journalist, was fought for two hours without any result on Friday. The fight was renewed on Saturday, when Regis was seriously wounded. Unrest in AlbaniaGreat unrest prevails in Albania. The peasants refuse to pay the taxes, and defy the authorities to coerce them.