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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 7, 8 July 1896, Page 2

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CRITICAL CONDITION OF SIR J. PENDEK. SIR H. ROBINSON ELEVATED TO THE PEERAGE. (Per Press Association.^ London, July 6. The territory between Uganda and Congo Free State has been gazetted as within the protectorate of Uganda. Lady Mary Bligh was found drownod to-day in a pond at Cobham Hall. Her clothes were found on the bank. A verdict wbs returned of suicide while in a state of temporary insanity. It is rumored that love was the cause. Sir J. Pepder has bad another paralytic stroke and is in a critical condition. The shares in the Gloucester mine, Waitekauri, have been allotted. Sir Hercules Robinson has been ele vated to the peerage, and returns to the Cape in the middle of August. Russia is reported to be seeking to establish a bank at Pekin to collect the revenue and conduct all the Chinese Government business. The Times states if the other colonies united with Victoria in creating a regular standard for Australian produce the action would constitute the federation ot the Australian export markets which, with federation for defence purposes, would be a valuable forerunner of political federation. Washington, July 7. The supporters of the silver currency claim 621 delegates at the Chicago convention. Constantinople, July 7. Incessant earthquakes have been experienced in Cyprus, and the town of Limasol on the Southern coast is quite deserted. The residents in some districts are living in tents.