CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 30, 8 September 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. ( PElt UNITIJD p.»K>S ASSOCIATION.}' London, Septembers. Alexsmdre Jacques, the faster, has completed 35 out of "his fifty days' fast, and keeps very well. Rhodes, employed as a sorter in the London Post Office has been arrested on a charyc of stealing} two thousand letters, from which he abstracted in the aggregate a sum of £20.000, as well a* a lurjje number of cheques and Post office orders. The Congress of colliery managers has carried resolutions strongly opposing statutory eight hours work in mines. There is renewed agitation among the employes of the omnibus companies, and a strike is threatened. It is alleged that the companies infringing the agreement arrived at after last strike. The Tyne shipbuilders have decided to reduce in October the wages of 10,000 men by 5 per cent. A labour dispute is occurring in the woollen factories in the North of France. Five hundred delegates, representing two million of workers, will attend the Congress at Newcastle. : The Trades Union Congress sitting in London have given a solid vote on the question Of a legal eight hours. The military manoeuvres of the Austrian and French soldiers in Vienna and Paris respectively show that smokeless powder will come into extensive use in the field. Balloons, telephones, semaphore, and evolutional tactics were also practised. The Austrian and German newspapers are yery indignant at the diplomatic victory of Bussia in Turkey, and demand similar rights respecting the passage of the Dardanelles for other Powers. They request that England should take the initiative in the matter. A sensation has been caused in Warsaw owing to preparations which are being made to concentrate a large force within a fortnight. The reason of the mobilisation is not known. September 6. Information has been receiyed that during the recent riots at Tchang sha in China a Belgian priest and two Sisters of Mercy were murdered. The Rev C H. Spurgeon, who had been gradually gaining strength from bis recent severe illness, has suffered a relapse. Constantinople, September 5. The Porte is preparing a circular respecting the Dardanelles, and explains that the concessions were made to facilitate navigation. It is rumoured that the great Powers have protested against the agreement between Turkey and Eussia respecting the passage of the Dardanelles. Bucharest, September 4. The Queen of Roumania has been persuaded to part with Miss Varesco, who it is understood will enter a convent. Maxbid, September 5. The collision between the Medina Campo and Madrid' express was due to negligence on the part of the pointsmnn I^o lives were lost, but many persons were injured. Paeis, September 5. Owing to severe storms in the citj several persons were drowned- The sewers being flooded caused thousands of rats to invade the houses. The reported accident to the train conveying French troops to the manoeuvres is incorrect. Chicago, September 6 An explosion of twenty tons of dyna« mite at White Pigeon, in Michigan, de stroyed ihe factory and killed sixteen persons. Washinston, September 3. Sixteen blocks in Dallis city, Oregon, have been burned. The loss is estimated al a million dollars. September 6, The census shows that the wealth of i-hp TTnited -'tafr's has increased by no less than .one-fchird during the last de* cade. The highwaymen who stack up and robbed a train on the Southern Pacific line were overtaken after a long pursuit in Texas, and thirteen of them killed. In the fight two of the pursuers were killed The money taken was recovered. Ottawa. September 6. Sir R. Cartw right's motion in favour of a return to Freetrade was defeated by a majority of 21. Beelin, September 7. Siemans and Halske, electrical engineers, bave submitted to the German Government a si-heme for constructing eight lines of a total length of forty miles of elevated electric railway in the city and suburbs. The cost is put down at eighty-four million marks.