IP-DAY'S CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 135, 7 December 1893, Page 2

IP-DAY'S CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright THE LATE PROFESSOR TYNDALL. FRENCH MILITARY OPERATIONS. THE EDUCATION QUESTION IN IRELAND. MR GLADSTONE AND THE UNEMPLOYED. (PEB PBEB3 ASSOCIATION.) London, December 6. It is reported that Mr Gladstone is engaged in translating the whole of the works of Horace. His studies occupy him some hours daily. The Scotch miner?, who struck some days ago for an advance in wages, have asked Mr Gladstone to intervene with the colliery owners. A team of South African cricketers Will visit England next year. This season's supplies of American and Canadian apples for the British markets are virtually nil, and in the face of this fact the prospects of Australasian shipments, both as regards demand and price, are excellent. The War Office is arranging with the chief military hospitals in Great Britain to test the suitability of Yictonan-tmned butter. The Admiralty has selected a committee to test an experiment with Viotorian«tinned butter at certain stations on tke homeward route, and also to test the article at the officers' mess tables The man Schneider, in whose house at Hampstead a box of dynamite was fonnd by the sheriff, is a director of a dynamite projectile company, and it is now be* hered that the packages of dynamite found on the premises were trade samples. Professor* Tyndall died from an overdose of chloral. The Christian Brothers in Ireland decline to adopt compnlsory attendance of pupils, on the ground that their schools are not endowed by the State. In the House of Commons, Mr Sexton and his colleagues oppose the Government compelling the Brothers to comply with the Act. Three more arrests have been made in connection with the recent dynamite out* rage in Dublin. Air Gladstone has declined to agree to a temporary reduction of the eight hours principle in the Government departments in the interest ot the unemployed He says it is impossible to have a uniform rate of working hours in the Government service. Paris, December 5. About 40,000 French soldiers are being echeloned near the Italian frontier. Washington, December 6. President Cleveland is satisfied that the new tariff will afford steady employment and lhat it will provide for the expenditure of the country, with the help of temporary taxes imposed for revenue purposes.