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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 174, 26 January 1897, Page 2

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.». (Per Press Association.) London, Jannary 24. English capitalists, through Messrs Collins Levy and Jerome Dyer, two ex Victorians, have offered to embark a quarter of a million sterling in the Victoria wine trade, to purchase 100,000 gallons annually, and expend £8000 in advertising if the Victorian Government will guarantee 3 per cent interest on the money invested for 14 years. The natives of the Bonny district on the West Coast of Africa, to the eastward of the months of the Niger, having deposed their chieftain, the British Consul rainstated him, with the result that the natives threaten to murder the Consul, and the latter has requested the authorities to send a gunboat to his assistance. Berlin, January 24. The city newspapers state that the Emperor William refused to meet Count Herbert Bismarck at a society gather*, ing. St. Petersburg, January 25. M. Muravieff, Minister for Foreign Affairs, intends under order of the Czar to visit President Faure. He will be banquetted at the Elysee. It is reported the Russian Government is re arming the artillery with French rapid firing guns. Constantinople, Jan. 25. The European Commission has nominated Major Bor an English officer, for the command of the Cretan Gendarmerie but M. Nelidoff, the Russian Ambassador, has not consented to the nomination.