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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 101, 17 February 1891, Page 2

THE LATEST.

Received February 17, 10.45 a.m. Lonion, February 16. The Shipping Federation has issued s m -nifesto refusing to employ Unionist* unless they pledge themselves to wort with free laborers. They insist on the right of men to sign on board ship or ai the mercantile ' offices. The Dockers have virtually agreed to the Federatior terms, but it seems a difficulty is expected with the fighting section. At Cardiff the strikers have opened negotiations for a settlement. ■ Mr Mann, speaking at Cardift, asserted that if the Shipping Federation continues coercion all the Unionists in the'eountr^ will unite in strike. Canon Creighton, of Worcestor, succeeds Dr McGee as Bishop of Peter boro. New York, February 16 It is ' reported an insurrection has broken out in Bolivia. St. Johns, February 16. The Legislature of New Foundland hai parsed a resolution that the inertness o Grae-t Britain with regard- to the fisheries dispute gives evidence of an utter disre gard of the well-being of the colony which is calculated to disturb its loyalty. Ottawa, February 16. Sir Charles Tnpper, who is delivering a series of speeches throughout the country, declares the McKinley Act is regarded by the British Government as intended \tc cripple Canada, and coerce it into annexation to the United States. :^ Sir John Thompson, Minister of Justice, has created a sensation by producing a pamphlet written by a prominent Canadian Liberals and secretly circulated by the Senate of the United States Congress, showing that the Liberal of Canada are ready for annexation and only Sir John McDonald, the Premier, is standing put.