THE LATEST.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 23, 9 August 1890, Page 2

THE LATEST.

London, August 8. Owing to the strike of the Cardiff colliers, the price of all coal is rapidly advancing. Two first-class torpedo boats will be sent to strengthen the British fleet on the American station. The price of New Zealand mutton is unchanged. New Zealand beef — hindquarters, 4£d per lb - forequarters, 3d. There is every prospect of the prices hardening at the next series of wool auctions, which open in September. By a strike in South Wales 1500 railway hands and 30,000 miners are thrown out of work. The leaders of the agitation and Secretary of the Railway Company have arranged that a month's work shall consist of 240 hours, and that overtime be paid after a man shall have worked 15 (?) hours on one day. It is expected that the directors of the Company and th« men will ratify the agreement. The Marquis of Salisbury having threatened to eend a warship to Guatemala if the British debt fund was diverted, the Government of that State has refrained from carrying out its proposal. The transferring of the Administration of Heligoland from Great Britain to Germany will take place on Sunday, when the Emperor William lands on the Island in the presence of the German fleet. Tlie . ceremony is expected to be very imposing. The French press express satisfaction at the agreement arrived at between France and England in respect to territory in Central Africa. England is to retain a protectorate over Sokoto and Bornu States Madrid, August 8. Cholera has made its appearance in this city. Buenos Ayres, August 8. The populace are jubilant at the resignation of Dr Celman, Dr Pellegrini, the new President, has succeeded in the formation of a new Cabinet.