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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 9, 5 July 1890, Page 2

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o Jtfy Eleetnc Telegraph— Copyright. (HER UNITED PRESS- ABWCIATKkSTV" f*\ LONDOK, Julj 3. The Chamber of Commerce and Ship . Brokers 1 Association have re-opened negotiations with respect to Australian bills of lading. The Clyde shipbuilders have intimated their intention to reduce wagea in August and a strike is threatened. Burnell's wool scouring machine ha» been sold to a Leeds and Bradford syndidicate for £4000. Leeds is entirely without gas, and in consequence the factories are at a standstill, and thousands are idle. The disturbance is now confined to wordy abuse, and violence is subsiding. . The blacklegs are going over to the side of the strikers, and a settlement of the quarrel is probable. July 4. Leeds is quiet, but the troops remain on duty. The striker* will be granted higher wages. Davitt is about to start the Labour World — an organ to advance the cause of the labour party. He intends to publish Richard Pigott's diary in it. The Duches of Teck, while bpatingon the Thames, had a narrow escape of being killed by the bowsprit of a vessel which came into collision with her craft; England has offered Suakim to Italy on^condition that she renounces the protectorate over the Somali Coast. An attempt by the authorities to compel the telegraph clerks, to express regret for groaning at the name of the Queen, failed. They were willing to declare that no disrespect was intended to Her Majesty personally, but the ebullition of } feeling was simply a protest against the way they were treated. At the wool sales, prices for merinos remain steady, but coarse crossbreds have a downward tendency. f ; New Zealand - hemp, good medium quality, £19 5s 6d to £19 10s/ Belgbade, July 4. The Servian Consul, whose murder at Fristina was reported, was killed in the market place of the town. Gipsies are suspected. Melbourne, July 4. The Postmaster- General has approved letting the backs of telegraph envelopes as an advertising medium. Adelaide," July 4. The Government deny that they intend . entering into a reciprocal treaty , With New Zealand whereby oatß snVL be adr nutted into South Australia free o! duty. St. John's, July 4. A French mau-of-war drove off-thirty British vessels taking bait at Port-au-port and seized and cut their nets.