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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 123, 22 November 1893, Page 2

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By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright big libel action, gigantic naval scheme, dynamite plot. ' SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST MILITIA OFFICERS. SEBVIA'S TREASURY EMPTY. INDIA AND THE OPIUM COMMISSION. GERMANY'S WAR POLICY. {PER PBBSB ASSOCIATION.) London, November 2i. Mr W. K. McOready, of Melbourne, who was charged with defrauding Messrs Scbewcrer and Co., Parisian merchants, has noir instituted proceedings against tho Accusers, claiming £10.000 for false imprisonment. The case will be heard in December, and afterwards Mr McCready returns to Melbourne. Lord Charles Bercsford has submitted to the Admiralty a naval ship- building programme to cost £18,000,000 sterling. Colonel M. A. French, late commandant of the Queensland forces, has been appointed to the command of the artillery in the Bombay district, India. At the meeting of the shareholders of the British Broken Hill Company, Mr James Macandrew, chairman of tne company, stated that Mr Woodbead, who represents the Adelaide shareholders, had made random statements as to the immense reserve of carbonate ore in the mines. They wer© misleading, for the highest estimate of ore in sight was only sixty thousand tons. There were some other bodies of ore half that amount. He said the rumoured negotiations for the sale of the entire property to a Proprietor? Company were purely imaginary. Mr Knox said chemical difficulties had upset all their anticipations. Three months' bills are discounted a( 2$ per cent At a meeting of shareholders of the London Bank of Australia, Sir J. F, Garrick made a favorable statement as tc the progress of the business and said thej hoped soon to pay depositors a firsl instalment. The Calcutta correspondenet of the Times writes that the whole of India is in a state of discontent and uneasiness ovei the Opium Commission. The natives have taken alarm at the Commission's enquiry, believing it will lead to fresh taxation, and be the first step towards a compulsory change of religion. Streeter and Co., the well known authorities on precious stones, report that the recent consignments of Australian turquoif 63 are streaky and valueless. The Australian Chilling and Freezing Company has declared a dividend of 7£ per cent, and will shortly increase the amount of capital. A heavy fall Las taken place in the price of English coal since the strike has been settled. Sir A. Clarke is urging the Admiralty and Horse Guards to take Victorian butter for their stations abroad. Madbid, November 21. Many fresh discoveries of bombs have been made at Barcelonia, Belgrade,, November 20. The Servian finances are in a deplorable state. The officials cannot get their pay, and the bread supply of the army lias been stopped. The peasantry are migrating to Ronmania. Ottawa, November 21. Three Canadian militia officers, including the son of H. Mercier, a Quebec statesman, have been arrested ou a charge of attempting to destroy the Nelson monument by means of dynamite. The plot was divulged by a son of the Chief of Police. The dynamite plot in Montreal was the outcome of French-Canadian hostility. Nkw Yobk, November 21. Arrived — Clan Fergusson, barque, from Auckland (August 6). Romk, November 20. The Vatican official press states that the Pope induced the Franco-Russian alliance. Bebiin, November 20. The German Government has established a camp on the Belgian frontier as a central station in the event of the mobilization of troops. St. PETErsuuKG, November 20. The Russian squadron will visit Constantinople. Chicago, November 20. New South Wales has been assigned nine awards for fruits at the Exhibition.