CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 97, 8 February 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright JPKK UNITED PRKS* ASSOCIATION. | London, February 5. The Australian cruiser Persian has been launched at Sir W. Armstrong and Co.'s works at Elswick. Lad}' Berry performed the christening ceremony. In replying to a toast Sir Graham Berry said that he belieyed Colonial Federation was being gradually^'and" surely brought about.; A small strike of wool labourers at the docks for the abolition of exertion mwney aud- the concession of higher payments for piecework, has taken place. The non unionist dockers are debating for an at>olitiion of meal times if the - pay is increased to an equivalent. Mr Hayes states "that the labourers of five of the largest wool warehouses will strike on Saturday unless they are c<mcoded the terms of the September general agreement. The exhibition of Wolseley's shearing machine in London has' been attended with great success. ? TLe St. James Gazette has contained a series of articles iv which it was assorted that all the Australian borrowings were used to foster State socialism, which dominates the whole fabric of their credit. Speculation sent up wages, especially in Victoria, where each loan causes a surface prosperity and an inflation on the strength of former reputatiou. It adds that Victoria has pawned itself to British capatalists. The Colonial Office, which is inquiring into colonial divorce generally, is devoting extreme care to the measures recently passed by New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia, and protests against the measures lodged by the religious bodies. R. M.S. Tonganro arrived all well at Plymouth, with her cargo of frozen meat in good condition. After a long delay the trial of the Bishop of Lincoln for ritualistic practices has fiiiall}' commenced, It first icarae before the Ecclesiastical Court last February Mr Parnell himself initated the proceedings which brought about the settlement of his action against The Times, and the latter pays costs as between party and party. ' '" ' The wool market is unchanged, but there is a more lively . _ M adhid. Fe nruary 5 . "A\ Spanish Deputy called attention in the Cortes to the persistant presence of the British, squadron at the Canaries. Lisbon, Febuarv 5 Portugal is requesting the Powers to convene a conference on the, Zambesi question, hut if this cannot be done, the Government is willing that the Slavery Conference now sitting at Brussels should arbitrate. ; Berin, February 5: The rumour is revived 1 that Bismarck meditates resigning, Sofia, February 5. A plot against Ferdinand of Bulgaria is ascribed to Russian machinations.