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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 January 1903, Page 3

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[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] Foreign Claims against Venezuela. London, Jan 29. Bowen's proposal that all foreign claims against Venezuela ba treated with equality has been resp.cLd. Municipal Mat.erg. Over two hundred and fifty 'vre disfranchised in connection with t.. recent bribery at Shrewsbury. A hundred Liberals received Conservative money New Temperance Movement. A semi-teetotal movement in England is making rapid strides especially in business circles. The pledge is to abstain between meals.

The Sugar Convention. Paris, Jan 29. France has ratified the Brussels sugar convention. The Royal Scandal. Berlin, Jan 29. Princess Louise of Saxony has been deprived of all her rights and honors appertaining to Austrian Arch-Duchess. The special divorce court at Dresden is holding its sittings in camera. Church Matters. Rome, Jan 29. The Pope is appointing 45 prelat »s of different na'ionaHties to advise the Bible Exegesis Commission. "EYidenca after flya Years." London, Jan 29. The body of one of the wives of Chapman, the Southwark murderer, was disintered after a five years' burial. It was marvellously well preserved. The preservation is attributed to antimony which Chapman is supposed to have given her. A Noble Bequest, Robert, son of the late Sergt Storks Governor of King's College Hospital, has bequeathed sixty thousand pounds to the hospital. Wool Market. The wool is in brisk demand, and prices are well maintained. "Love unto Death." Paris, Jan 29. Abbe Vales, reclor of Seils near Toulouse, has been ordered to be transferred for loving a beautiful girl, his landowner's daughter. The couple died together, Belfrey Vales holding a crucifix, and she a rosary. Vales shot hee and then suicided. Chinese Affairs. The foreign ministers at Ptkin have protested that numerous "black listed'' Chinese officials have bsen appointed to high offices contrary peace protocl. The Somaliland Expedition.

The advance of the Somaliland Expedition has been commenced. Crabbe occupied and is entrenched in a position at Eninarch Wei's, preparatory to advancing on the Mudag oaris, the centre of the Mullahs operations. Three Railway Accidents. New Yokk, Jan. 29. A hundred .'and twelve were killed in the Graceland railway accident. Another collision happened at Tucson, Arizona, when eight were killed and seventeen injured. A third collision occurred at Lofax, Illinois where three were killed and twelve injured.