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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 102, 20 February 1890, Page 2

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By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright JPKR UNIT-ai) PRKSS ASSOCIATION. [ London,. February 17. Obituary — Sir Louis Mallet, aged 67. The Government will move that the report of The Times- Parnell Commission be accepted and duly entered in the Journal of the House. Great interest is being manifested as the next step that will be taken in connection with the matter. Three hundred and fifty thousand miners will go out on strike on the sth March, ucless their demand for a rise of 10 per cent, in wages is complied with, The.story has been again reyived that Lord Loftus, when British Ambassador at Berlin, was instructed to offer the Fiji Islands to Germany. February 18., The Chancery .Court has sanctioned Messrs Robert Campbell and Son's reduction of their capital by £3 per share. Mr H. Matthews, Home Secretary, in replying to a deputation of miners-, which waited on him to-day, urging him to support the Eight Hours Bill introduced by Mr R. Cunninghame Graham,. M.P. •for the North* Western > Division of Lanarkshire, said it was hopeless to ex pect the Government to restrict adult labour to eight hours. Anthony Gibbandson sued the Societe de Metaux for damages by refusing to complete the copper contract and recovered L 41 ,000. ADEN,'February 17. While on the voyage between Colombo and this port a passenger on board the P. and O. Company's Victoria attempted to commit suicide by jumping overboard. A rescuing boat was immediately lowered, but owing to the high sea which was running she capsized and her thirteen occupants were thrown into the water, ' the boatswain, quartermaster and wouldbe suicide being drowned. Lisbon, February 17. Le Gomtede Freitas, one of the Councillors of. State proposes that a Commission be / established to delimit the English and Portuguese territory in Southern Africa. Serious Republican agitations have broken out in many parts of this country. New Yobk, February 17Two trains ■ collided at Burdestown, Ohio, three persons being killed. Pabis, February 17. lt is stated that Marshal Macmahon. formerly President of the French Republic, approves the sentence passed on the Due d'Of leans. Washington, February 17. The American press, in commenting on "the report of The Times -Parnell Com- ■ mission, congratulates Mr Parnell on the result. Beblin. February 18. It Is reported that 1 Prince Bismarck retires from the position of. Minister of Foreign Affairs, of Commerce, and Pre. : mier of Prussia, but will retain the posit. : ion of Chancellor of the German Empire. Zanzibar, February 18. It is anticipated that Major Wissman, with 1400 Soudanese, will start on an expedition to the interior of Africa toward the end of April. " * * itar»*»«rr— — — — >