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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 81, 27 December 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

« . 3y Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (PER UNITED PUKS3 ASSOCIATION.) London, December 22. The Bishop of Lincoln has given notice ai his intention to appeal against the decision of the Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Privy Council. There are 90,000 unemployed in the East End of London. Rear-Adnural Sir Charles Scott has appealed to the. Admiralty and Lord Knutsford, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to .definitely settle the question of the precedence of the Admiral on the Australian station. At the inquest on the bodies of seven of the crew of the British India Company's steamer Jumna, who died from the offects of scalding when the steam pipes expl-ded, the jury returned a verdict of death, the result of misadventure. Three thousand of the employees of thfl North British Bailway Company are out on strike, demanding a reduction in their hours, and traffic is almost paralysed. . Dr Cureenven. an English surgeon, claims to have discovered a method of treating scarlet fever with eucalyptus oil. Butter, ex Aorangi from New Zealand, is selling from 108 to 112s per cwfc. Cheese at 525. , December 23. The money market is unlikely to he favorable .to colonial borrowing until iviarch or April. Four thousand five hundred railway men are out on strike. In consequence of the delay to the rains, Singer's Sevring Machine Works, at Kilbowie, are closed, and 4000 workpeople are idle. Mrs Pearcey, the Hampstead murderess, suffered the extreme penalty of the law yesterday. Before her execution she made a full confession of the crime Dr Barnard o has issued an appeal to the public on behalf of his establishment for the destitute. He states that his homes contain nearly four thousand waifs and funds are urgently needed. The season is terrible severe, and hundreds of street children are without homes or food. Will Australia send a generous Christmas gift P New Yobk, December 22. The Mormonites have secured a vast tract of country situated in Northern Mexico. Beblin, December 23. Twelve girls returning home from a confirmation service have been drowned in a lake at Eastern Holstein owing to tne ice breaking. The Pope has instructed the Roman Catholic clergy of Germany to combat Socialism by lectures -from the pulpit. Thirty thousand Russian Jews are expected shortly at -Hamburg, and unless they are assisted to Brazil they will go on to London. Hono Kong. December 22, By an explosion at Tae-Ping, 800 Chinamen were killed and 1000 houses destroyed.