CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 40, 18 September 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

EIGHT HOURS A DAT QUESTION. ALL THE EURoT?EAN COLLIERIES TO STRIKE TO OBTAIN THAT END. By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright (PSH UNITED PIIESS ASSOCIATION) Lo.vdox, September 16. The Times expresses a hope that the splendid mining collection at Crystal Palace will form the nucleus of a permanent exhibition. Messrs Born and Pi oka rd are arranging for the cougretis in Belgium to secure the general adoption and legislation of the eight hours system. It i« proposed that all the collieries in Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, aud Austria shall be laid idle if necessary in order to gain this end. ' llie Spectator advocates ihe establishment of diplomatic relations with Borne whicb.it ibiuks, would enable the Government to counr on the .sup ort of the Irish in tbe event of the separation of the colonies. I he report that Archbishop Walsh is to be created a cardinal is denied. Miss Eniily Fitzroy, who was recently engaged bj Mr C. Wyndham, of the Criterion Theatre, for. the season, has made a successful debut. The decree dealing with slaves said,to hare been issued at Bagamayo by the Germans discredited in Germany, The quantity of American wheat available for export is only half last year's amount. English harvest prospectsjare favourable. Constantinople, September 15. News has been received confirming the capture of Moussa Bey, the Kb ur dish chief. BkblilV. September 'l6. The Emperor and Chancellor meet the Emperor of Austria and Count Kalnoky in Silesia tormorrow, for the purpose, it is rumoured, of fixing the term of the Triple Alliance.