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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 108, 6 March 1890, Page 2

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•> .■-' - iv Ulectric Telegraph. — Copyright fl-. i-'N'IT-ll PKKm.- A-iSOOIATIUN ,[ LowiKiM, March 3. The Times think* it will, be desirable to inquire whether the officers and craw of thw Quetta were saved at the expanse of the pasaeuger-. Thirty- two thousand cement workers and lightermen on th* Medway have, struck for an advance of IU per ceut. A. hundred thousand colliers iuLan- ; cashire, York«hire,.,aud;Jliidland Counties will fttuke on 15th" Match' for au advance of IU par cent. Mr LaDouchere, speaking at Kantishtowu, said h* was determined to persevere with hi* acti<«« regarding the Went End scandals. 11* stigmatised the majority of tht members of th* House of Cointnous aa a disreputable craw. Tauujsou is ataadilj recovering. The Times stalea that tha fund for Nordeuskjold's Antarctic expedition ia inadequate, and it would b* easy for Australia to contribute £20,000 or £30,000. The Duke of Connaught will succaad the Duko of Cambridge aa Commander-in-Chief at an early date. Tha betting ou tha Uuivaraity boatrace ia 5 to 4 ou Oxford. Th* data has boon fixed for the hearing of the petition of L%d) Couuciuara for a diroua tmui bar husband on th* jf rounds of adultery. It ia reported that Franc* ann*x«s th* Kingdom of Dahomey, Wast Africa, in order to prevent th* tacrine* of 5000 slaves on th* occasion of th* u*w king go.ng to the Throne. The Quatta disaster has caused an immeiu* seusatiou hare. Much sympathy is expressed for Mr Thomas Archer, C.M.G., Agent-General for Queensland, whos« brother was amongst thosedrowiied The offices of th* Company owning the veswel -are tbrougad with anxious inquirers. March 4. Through a brake failing, an express train running into Carlisle station collided with a standing engine, four persons being killed and fourteun injured. 7700 quarters of wheat on pas-age hay* been sold at 34s 9d. The opening ceremony In connection with the new railway brid_* .oyer th* Forth, was conducted by the Priuc* of Wales, aud was a most imposing spectacle. The Aberdeen (Jtuyeroity has conferred the degr*e of Divinity on the Rev Elm-lie, of Christchurch, New Zealand. Mr Balfour is coufiu«d to hla b*d with au attack of cold. The .sportsman, commenting on the Australian cricket team which is about t* visit England, remarks that it is' far trom being representative of the strength of the various Australian centres. * . Rkblin, March 3. The. Labour .'Conference .'will dwiiss tha regulation of collieries, the prohibition of th* employment of woman and children in unhealthy work undwrgiO'ind. shortening the time of shifts, and »*- --surance of regular output. The question relating to Sunday labour and the wo u k of woman, lads aud children, with also be takeu into consideration. February 5. The latest election returns show 112 Centres, SO Radicals aud Democrats, 37 Socialists, 125 Cartels, 16 Polos. 11 Alsatious, 7 unattached. There are still urns returns to com*. Pabis, March 3 ii. Olliver, the French statesman, eulogises th* Emperor of Gerinauy for adopting Napoleon's Socialistic views. Th* r'renoh Ch_uib_r of Deputies voted a motion of confideuc* in Goyernment by 240 to 200. The result is regarded as a defeat for tha Ministry owing to th* fact that 120 members refrained from fotiug. '•A asiukotov, March 3. Cmcmnatti is flooded by the overflow of the Ohio. The Pan-American Conference recommend the comas* of a silver dollar which .ball b* a legal tender lor all American nations. Zanzibak, Maroh 3. Emm Bey has returned her*.