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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 92, 2 February 1892, Page 2

THE LATEST.

ENGINEERS ON STRIKE. A STEAMER GONE ASHORE. RESULTS OF PROTECTION, THE SANITARY CONFERENCE CLOSED. RUSSIAN SERFDOM. (Received, February 2, 10.20 a.m.) London, February 1. The Archbishop of Canterbury has ordered prayers to be offered up for the removal of influenza. Eight thousand engineers have gone out on strike. It is feared the movement will affect thirty thousand. The German Lloyds steamer Eider has gone ashore at the Isle of Wight during a fog. Paeis, February 1. The prices of food are rising in Paris in consequence of the new tariff coming into operation to-day. Several Parisian papers are asking how contracts can be safely made in view of the precarious character of the tariff, and accuse the protectionists of plunging France into a dangerous venture. St. Pstbbsbtjbo, February 1. The Czar proposes to rebind the. peasantry to the sojl as they, were in former days, and cdnpel them to cultivate it. The state retaining twothirds of the produce and one-third being stored in the magazines of each commune for the support of the peasants. A memorial issued by Zemestovs predicts that unless the Government changes its attitude Russia will become bankrupt or will be dismembered by a popular rising which will deluge the country with the blood of its inhabitants. Venice, February 1. The Sanitary Conference has finished its sitting. An efficient hospital is to be provided on the Suez Canal and no ship is to be detained longer than five days. Special rules have been made applicable to mail steamers upon their giving a satisfactory guarantee. The English Delegates have not signed the convention of the method of dealing with troopship's. Athens, February 1. There are 500 tons of water in H.M.S. Victoria, but the leaks are being stopped and the guns removed. It is hoped she will be afloat shortly. Nelson, This Day. The weather continues fine but very hot. A large number are going to the port for the regatta and to witness the submarine display arranged by Captain Falconer. Wellington, This Day. A new evening paper is to be started here in the Liberal interest. Considerable promises of support have been secured and in a few days it will be placed before the public in company form. Neither the Governor nor the Government have yet received any intimation as to who the new governor is likely to be. The Chief Justice, by virtue of what is known as the Dormant Commission, will be sworn in as Acting- Governor, receiving half pay both as judge and as Governor. This will interfere with the Napier session and some re-arrangement will have to be made. The Government haye not yet made up their mind as to the Council nominations, but it is quite possible they will not be submitted to Lord Onslow, but to the new Governor. They will be pretty numerous, and will include Labor representatives drawn from ranks of the working men. A.B to lists already published purporting to contain their names, the Government say they are mere guesses, no finality has been arrived at yet.