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Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 21, 25 July 1906, Page 2

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Press Association. — Copyright. Received, July 26, 8.21 a.m. £20,000,000 FORTUNE. London, Tuesday. Mr Russel Sage's fortune is estimated at twenty millions sterling. HARVARD v. CAMBRIDGE. The Harvard eight rows Cambridge University on the Thames on the first September. CONGRESS AT RIO. A Pan-American Congress is sitting at Rio de Janiero. Venezuela, Daminico, and Haytd are not represented* Presidents Roosevelt Diaz wire thanked for the reconciliation of Guatemala, Salvador, and Hondurtt. EIGHT CHINAMEN EXEJJTfID. The Rajah of Sarawak has executed eight Chinamen, members of a secret society, for plotting against the Government and committing several murders. [The Rajah of Sarawak (Borneo) is Sir Charles Johnson Brooke, succeeding his uncle to that position in 1868, and is 77 years of age. . He left the British Navy to serve under his uncle in 1851, was prominent m help* ing to restore the country to order, putting down piracy and head-hunt-ing. Sarawak has a population of half a million, and is 40,000 square miles in extent.] ALL TO HIS OWN. Sir Charles Tennanfs will has been proved at £3,151,974. Nothing has been left to charities. [Sir Charles Tennant was head of the firm of Charles Tennant & Sons, Chairman of the Union Bank of Scotland, [and was M.P. for Glasgow and then Peebles and Selkirk from 1879 to 1886. He was a member of Mr Chamberlain's Tarib Commission, and was captain of the NewZealandGolfOlub from 1896-97. He was born in 1893, was married twice, and leaves three sons and seven daughters.] THE EDUCATION BILL. At the report stage of the Education Bill, the Government abandoned the proposal to appoint a Minister of . Education for Wales, amidst Opposition jeers. BAMBAATA'S HEAD. Pietermaritzburg, July 24. All photographs of Bambaata's head have been confiscated by the arthorities. SAILER BEATS STEAMER. Sydney, Wednesday. The ship Neothfield made a passage from Capetown to Newcastle in thirty days, beating a tramp steamer which left East London for the same port three days afterwards by a day. BROTHERLY GREETINGS. Melbourne, Wednesday. The members of the Federal Parliament have sent a cable of greetings to the Inter-Parliamentary Congress sit-* ting in London. CONSUMPTION IN VICTORIA. The annual report of the Melbourne Hospital shows that two thousand die annually in Victoria from consumption. It urges the Government to take preventative measures.