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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 229, 2 February 1894, Page 2

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A STRIKE SETTLED. THE HARNESS FRAUDS. THE HEIR TO A BARONETCY AC- - CUSED OF FRAUD. THE SITUATION IN EGYPT. (PER PRESH ASSOCIATION.) WAsntNGTON, January 31. In connection with the wages difficulty that has arisen on the Union Pacific Railway, the courts have decided that the men must accept a 10 per cent, rednetion. and have forbidden them to strike. February 1. The House of Representatives has approved of the Income Tax, but ifc is believed the Senate will substitute a tax on sugar. London, January 31. Harness and others connected with the Medical Electric Company were discharged on the ground of insufficient evidence of fraud. February 1. Messrs Pickard and Woods declare that it is futile to confer with tbe owners unless the men are conceded a minimum wage and have a controlling voice in the price of coal. The Bank rate of discount is 2k per cent. Herbert Langham, formerly Master of the Pytchiey Hunt, and heir-presump-tive to Sir James Hay Langham, Baronet, was charged at Bow street to-day with fraud. The amount involved in connection with the present charge is i*l2oo. Langham, who has been extremely lavish in his expenditure, was only recently declared bankrupt. Cairo, January 31. It is reported that the relations between the Khedive and Riaz Pasha, his Prime Minister, are strained. The native press is bitterly hostile to England. Paris. February 1. Dr Cornelius Herzi is preparing three volumes of letters dealing with the Panama Canal Scandals. It is expected the publication will cause a great sensation. The customs committee has adopted an 8- francs duty per hundred kilos of wheat.