CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 4, 24 June 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright [PKIt UNITiD PRKSS ASSOCIATION. | London, June 20. The dock labourers at Gloucester, who struck owing to an alleged breach of agreement on the part of the employers, have resumed work. Under the Civil Lists Pensions Grants, Mrs Blanchard has been granted a penBio n in consideration of her seryices as a worker on behalf of the emigration of women . Owing to the Marquis of Salisbury mediating in the dispute between the Home Secretary aud the Chief Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, it is con-' sidered likely that Mr Monro will resume office. June 21. The police demand an increase of pay, and ignore the efforts of Ryndtnan and other Socialists to provoke a strike. The number of Postmen and Police Unions is steadily increasing. Sir Arthur Sullivan has offered Miss Amy Sherwin a three years engagement in the • Gondoliers' and • Iyanhoe* at the Sayoy Theatre. The Marquis of Salisbury has complained to Portugal of the latter's yiolatmg the status quo in the ->hire district by massing troops on the banks of Bus River. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Chronicle telegraphs that the Czar has sanctioned a Franco-Bussian alliance to balance the Anglo-German agreement. The licensing clauses in the local taxation proposals of the Goyernment will probably be withdrawn. St. Petebsburg, June 21. Crowds of Jews are being expelled from the Western Provinces of Bussia, and are seeking refuge in Austria. Washington, June 20. American citizens have presented a petition to Senate asking it to support their titles to lands acquired from Fijian chiefs: The petition has been referred to the Foreign Eolations Committee. June 21. The House of Bepresentatives has decided that the action of the Speaker in referring the Silver Bill to the Coinage Committee owing to the insertion of the money clause by the Senate, was erroneous, and in consequence a deadlock has arisen. , Capetown, June 22. Sailed— R.M.S. Ruapehu for Plymouth. Paris, June ~Zi M. Ribot, m the Chamber of Deputies, said that according to the Berlin Conven tion it was necessary for Great Britain to arrange with France previous to taking action in East Africa. The King of Dahomey in suing for peace. Berlin, June 20. Germans consider that the East African settlement almost amounts to an alliance with England. The feeling is gradually spreading in Germany that in the settlement of the East African question England secured the best of the bargain; Sofia, Jnne 21. The sentences passed on Major Panitza and other conspirators haye been confirmed.