GABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 84, 6 January 1891, Page 2

GABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (PKlt UNITJCI) IMrKSS A<vM)OIATION.) London, January 3. Although the directors of tbe Scotch railway companies assert that the strike is nearly over, the Caledonian Company is still a thousand men short of their usual complement. Owing to the demands of the labour party 100,000 tons of shipping is laid up in English ports. Three hundred Postal and Savings Bank's clerks in London have been suspended, owing to their refusal to work overtime. The Departmental Committee of the Board of Trade will examine the various Agents- General on the 23rd inst. as to whether their respective Governments wish to participate in the renewal of European treaties with Great Britain. Commander Royle has been offered the command of H.M. new screw criiei* Blonde, which is being equipped for Australian waters. South Australian wheat, 38s 6d, market restricted ; Victorian do, 38s ; New Zealand longberried do, 37s 3d, market quiet. New Zealand flour, superfine, 23s 6d. Canterbury mutton, 4d; Wellington do, 3Jd. New Zealand beef, forequarters, 3^d, hindquarters, 4d, market depressed. Lisbon, January 3. The Portuguese press assert that a definite treaty between Great Britain and Portugal respecting Zambesi, is on the point of conclusion. The formation of British Leagues is being encouraged by the Americans. Paris, Januarys. It is officially announced that the French Conversion Loan of eight hundred and sixty-one million francs, will be issued on the 10th inst. The minimum is fixed at 90*95. Berlin, January 3. By an explosion in the Velejeck Colliery, Silesia, fifteen miners were killed outright and thirty others are entombed. JNew Yobk, January 3. At midnight a fire broke out in Ster munn's Theatre, situated in Fifth Avenue and before the flames were extinguished the building vris gutted The damage is estimated at half a million dollars.