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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 122, 7 April 1891, Page 2

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London, April 4 Sixty thousondj enumerators are engaged in taking ceusus. _ A petition has been lodged against Alderman .Jollury, elected for Sligo, on the grbnud that the priests induced a hundred "electors to 1 declare they were illiterate, thus destrojing rhe 6eurecy oi the ballot. Mr W.. H. Smith has refused to.accept Mr M. Davitt us the representative of Miv Justin .vlcCarthy's party on the Government' Labour Commission. Bbbiiin, April- 4. Germau companies are" buying enormous quantities of coal in England aud~ America for the purposd of breaking the German ring. - - Pabi-j, .April 5 ' The police have taken steps to prevent, General Booth erecting refuge houses in the city. Buenos Aybes, April 5. The police have prohibited' the Salvation Army from assembling for' worship within the city, and the authorities have refused to recognise them as a religious body. "/>'-■!• i : New Yoek, April 5. ~ Seyere floods' have taken place at Ohio, and numbers of families' are homeless. 1 Twenty-two miles of railway line have i been submerged. Influenza is raging in Illinois, Wisconsiu,:and" ilmnesota. .' " ~ ' Efforts which have been made to induce.some two thousand.lndians to enrol in the infantry of the United States Army haye proved unsuccessful. The Indians prefer to -join' the cavalry regiments. r Six hundred miners have struck, work at Nevada. -J-* <' '-'.-. Valparaiso, April *©* several ships of the German and Chinese -quadtous ha ye beeu oidered to Chilian -watet a v • Received April 7,-11 a.m. - r '• " '- '" PABiSj'April 6. The Miners' Congress, before authorising an universal L strike, has agreed, at the request of tlie European Governments, to arrange. an International' Convention, which will deciea eight hours as the limit of labor. The jCongress has resolved to support the Belgians if they strike. Berlin, April 6. . ».! The Triple Alliance has been renewed. London, April 6. - Mr Justice Stephen has retired. A Coal Trust is being formed. .to control the output in the chief districts of the north.