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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 250, 27 February 1894, Page 2

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THE EIGHT HOURS SYSTEM. THE EUROPEAN SITUATION. DISASTROUS FIRE. THE FIGHTING IN BRAZIL. (PKK PRESS ASSOCIATION ) London, February 26 The War Office recoups the loss entailed through the adoption of the eight hours system in dockyards by reducing sick pay aud overtime, and abolishing payment ou bank holidays. The Daily Chronicle condemns the minute on Australian Finance, written by Mr Peel, and adds that nothing could afford more just provocation to the entire separation of the colonies than that lecture of Responsible Statesmen by a junior clerk. The Times thinks the decision of the Melbourne Board of Works to borrow locally will have a good effect in tho City. Carbutt's rice mills, at Bermondsey, have been burnt down. A strong draft of marines will be sent from Chatham to reinforce the troops at Bathurst. Yates Thompson, formerly proprietor of the Pall Mall Gazette, offers thirty eight thousand pounds for the erection of a monumental chapel in the Old Palace Yard in connection with Westminster Abbey. Bellamy's granaries at Rotherhithe have been destroyed by fire. An immense amount of damage has been done, and the dock is piled fifty feet high with debris. )' r "/)iSV f Pstehsbckg. February 25. Russia ha» arranged for a naval station and ports in the Mediterranean. Washington. February 26 A further amendment in the Tariff Bill is proposed in order to conciliate the sugar and coal interests. VlEffsA. February 26 The Czar, the Emperors of Germany and Austria and the King of Italy have arranged a meetiugat Abbazra('?) on the Adriatic, towards the cud of next month. The head cashier of the- Austrian State Debt Department absconded with 100,000 florins, and when his crime was discovered committed suicide in order to avoid arrest. Paris. Fcbnjnr* 25 M. Loi/ollon, ex-Minister for War iv the French Cabinet, speaking in the Chamber, said the French Alpine defences were superior, to those of Italy, but tho transport service was inferior to that of Germany. Rio dk Janeiro*. February 25. Loyalist troops conveyed in boats aud launches, attacked the rebels at Villegaiguou, on the shores of the harbour. The boats were sunk by the lire from the fort, and 400 soldiers perished.