CABLE NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 45, 13 October 1891, Page 2

CABLE NEWS

(I'ER UNITJSD PIUiSS ASfcOCI ATIO.N .) London, October 10. The men engaged on Chamberlain's and Hay's wharves have received notice of an intended reduction in wages to 5d per hour. , . , Mr Tom Mann states that during the past two years 15,000 members of the Dockers' Union have resigned, and that the present strength is 40,000. Shareholders of the Bank of South Australia are much irritated at the alleged discrepancy appearing in the circular, and threaten to proceed against the Directors of the institution. October 11. The Queen sent a wreath to bo placed on Mr W. H. Smith's coffin. The wreath bore the following inscription : " A mirk of sincere gratitude for devoted services to sovereign and country." Westminster Abbey was crowded with notables at tho funeral of the lute Right Hon \V. 11. Smith. The Agents- General for tlio colonies were all present. It is expected Mrs Smith will be niado a peeress in her own right. St. Petersburg, October 10. It is estimated that 32,000,000 Russian peasants arc in a destitute condition, and mnst remain so for the next ten months. German settlers in the Volga district are famine-stricken, and over a thousand are said to be prostrated by typhus fever. The llussian expedition to Patnir has safely traversed Kaslilcar and Yarkand. Pabis, October 10. In the course of his address at Marseilles M. do Fivycinet, the French Premier, stated that France was now in a position to enable her to devote attentions to distant colonial expeditions. While M. Uouvicr. Minister of Finance, M. Guqot, Minister of Public Works, and M. Jlochc, Minister of Commerce, were driving through the streets of Marseilles to day with an escort oF troops, a poison hurled an open knife at the carriage, Lut it struck one of the officers of the escort. Nobody was hurt. The Ministars were occasionally hissed. M. ,de Freycinet, Minister of War, speaking at Toulon, said the condition of the French army gave a feeling of greater security than had been known for 20 years past. Vienna, October 11. The Budget for the year shows a surplus of 600,000 florins. Caibo, October 12. Three colossal statues of Kamascs have been unearthed at Aioukir. Washington, October 11. The O3cumcrical Methodist Congress is discussing with much enthusiasm the abolition of tlic lines of division between the different branches of the Methodist Church.