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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 127, 27 November 1896, Page 2

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(Per Pres3 Association.) London, Nov. 24. The London County Council has appointed a committee to enquire into the umnugeinent of the Works Department, where it has been alleged irregularities have occurred. Tho Manchester co-operative delegate?, j who recently visified the colonies, have i submitted their report to the directors. It will be discussed shortly, and a decision will be arrived at at, an early date. A Times correspondent telegraphs that the rebols in Phillipme Island drew the Spanish into an ambush, and killed 300 of ihem. The Post Office has inyited tenders for the i upply of ten thousand bicycles intended for us=e in the postal deliveries. Thf Pull Mall Gazette states Government, propose to ask Parliament to increase the military grant by several txj ill tons for the purpose of increasing the artillery, also to establish nine battalions of infantry and reorganisation of transj port. Dr Jamieson's health is still precarious Dr Allingham is in attendance daily and th« release of tho Drisoner is expected. Barry and Gaudaar have arranged to row on the Thames in April for the championship ol' the world and £500 \ aside. Mr Doolette, junr., has presented to the Adelaide University an eight oared boat, which is to be sent to the colony in the Culgoa. Captain Sydenham Smith has been appointed Commandant of the New South Wales Artillery. Hamburg Nov. 25. The Bremen dockers urn joining in the lociil strike for an advance in wages. Shanghai, Nov. 25. It is reported that n. number of Corean officers have been arrested for plotting to seize the King in order to compel him to leave the Russian legation and return to the palnce. Iv conseqnence of the rumoured plot to seize the King of Coroa, 100 sailors from Eussian warships ha ye been landed at Seoul.