CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 103, 27 February 1892, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

— » ■ By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (I'KU UNITED PUKSS ASSOCIATION.) London, February 25. The announcement thatthe Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works had de** cided to borrow locally has been met with approval in financial circles in the City. Colonial stocks are improving. Truth says that if the Queensland Government is sincere in i's intention to re-establish the system of slavery in the Colony, it had better sever its connection with Great Britain and the British Navy. The Baroness Burdett-Coutts hns completely recovered from her severe illnes.*. Mr Goschen and Mr Forster (Secretary to the United Slates Treasury) will discuss a silver coiuage scheme suitable for introduction into the United States and Great Britain. An incendiary attempt was made to burn down the Shipping Federation oftiees at Dundee. A Bill limiting the hours of shop women to 74 per week has been read a second time. The owners ot the majority of the collieries in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Cumberland, Lancashire and North Wales haye arranged for a cessation of operations ; and the owners of pits in Staffordshire, Durham, and Northumberland are expected to join in the arrangement. The men have been given a fortnight's notice. Evidence was given before the Labour Commission, showing that the Poles were ousting English bootmakers, and were working for 6s to 8s per week of 100 hours. Men had protested against injustice, but had received no satisfaction. New Yobk, February 25. The Irish National League in America offers to appeal for funds to assist the Irish Party m the forthcoming general elections in England, on condition that neither the McCarthyites nor Parnellites apply the money to fighting each other Enriquez, the leader of the revolt in Guatemala, and twenty of his followers haye been shot. Pabis, February 25. A quantity of arms and dynamite has been discovered in the residences of Anarchists in several parts of the city