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Feilding Star, Volume XXIL, Issue 91, 15 October 1900, Page 2

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Telegraph. Press Association. Copyneht London, October 12. ; All steamship companies have decided j to raise fares ten per cent, from the 15th j inst.i on account of tbe rise in tbe price ' of coal. I Mr H. H. Asquith'e, M P., London ; House has been burned. A fine collection of pictures was destroyed in tbe fire. Lord Hopetoun has been decorated with the Grand Cross of the Victorian Order. Washington, October 13. Mr Cleveland, like Mr Harrison, lias reiterated anti silver views. Both assert tbat the issue of the present presidential election ia tbe same as tbat of 1896. Ottawa, October 13. The Canadian Parliament bas dissolved. The electioDs liave been fixed for November 7th. At tho elections Sir Charles Tupper, Leader of tha Opposition, fights Sir Wi'fred Lsurinr for giving Britain pre ferential tariff treatment without re- ; ceiving a corresponding advantage. A section of the Liberals attack tbe Government on the ground of participating iv tbe Sooth African war. Paius, October 155. Tha War Department is giving much encouragement t) billooning. Several remarkible displays acrostal have taken p'uee in connection with the Kxhibition at Pati*. One balloon travelled from Paris to Kicff, in Eu>sii, a | distinca of 1300 ruilcs in 36 hour*. Several have reached Germany. One travelled Dearly to St. Petersburg. O virg ti complaints rcga ding ihe administration of the French possession in Cambodia, tiie Resident and another official have been recalled. |Note — Cambodia ;s a French protectorate in the Kontli east of the Indo-Chinese Prninsnla It lias mi aiea of 38,610 square milea and a native population of a million and a half. F