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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 63, 14 November 1889, Page 2

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright* (PER UNITED PBESff ASSOCIATION.) - London, November 12. " The lightermen have resumed work. The wharfmen and dock^ labourers who are still standing out show signs of yielding. Meantime they are not being paid. The Great Powers have agreed to the Bulgarian^uestion. .Shares in the bank of New Zealand fell Ll, owing to the rumour that the .• London and Colonial registers were to be amalgamated. The dispute between Mr Chamberlain and Lord Randolph Churchill over the last Birmingham election is to be referred to liofds Salisbury and- ' Hartington 'for settlement. i , • I The attitude of Sir F. D. Bell prevents Sir G. Berry and Sir G. Tupper opposing the "Imperial Act to autho- - rise the -investment for trust funds in colonial stocks. November 13. The- Stevedores of the General ; Steam Navigation Company, under pressure of the lightermen, have . struck, demanding 7d -per hour dur- . ing the day aad 9d per hour overtime. The Company said thatitwa-; impossible to comply with the demand in view of the competition abroad, and at the British outports, and .declare that the strike had already alienated a formidable amount of trade. Subsequently being everywhere - blocked, the company conceded the demand. 1 Before The Times- Parnell Commission to-day > Sir Henry- James, one of the leading counsel for The Times, commented in strong terms on MrParnell's hase and dishonourable deception of the House of Comtnoas and the violent outhurst of boycotting in the S >utb of Ireland. ' The iron market continues excited and best Scotch pig," f o b., is quoted at 645 ; Middlesborough, No. 3, 67s ; •hematite, 77/. Zanzibar, Noremher 12. News of Dr Peters' death has been re-affirmed. Belgrade, 12. Ex-King Milan has returned to this city. Athk^s. November 12 M. Tncoupis, Prime Minister of Greece, threatens that Greece will avenge the sufferings of the Cretan* directly jt is strong enough. •"" • Wombat, November 12. Prince Albert Victor met with twoaccidents during the reception at Poonah. His elephant * fell ' and hi» horses afterward bolted, but the* Prince escaped without injury. Stdnut, November 13. No further cases of smallpox have developed on board the Messageriets Maritimeß Company's steamer Yarra, which has been quarantined he rev One of her passengers, named Gould, booked for Dunedin, left the Yarra at Melbourne and journeyed overland toSydney .He is believed to.be identical with a passenger of the same name who took a pas^Sfe by the s.s. Jubilee, which left for Wel'ingt n >t»terday, and the local Board of Health have advised the health authorities at Wellington to be on the alert.