HOME & FOREIGN, GABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 281, 6 April 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN, GABLES.

♦ MR GLADSTONE TO UNDERGO AN OPERATION. STRIKE RIOTS IN PENNSYLVANIA 17 RIOTERS KILLED. A FRENCH FORCE ROUTED IN THE SOUDAN. THE BRAZILIAN REFUGEES. NARROW ESCAPE OF A WARSHIP. CRISIS IN NEWFOUNDLAND. THE BETTERMENT PRINCIPLE. SERIOUS FIRE AT A LONDON WOOL WAREHOUSE. THE CZAR AND COUNT VON CAPRIVI. (PISB PRESS ASSOCIATION). London. April 5. Mr Gladstone, whose sight is impaired through cataract, will undergo an operation in June. Messrs Dalgety and Co. have declared an interim dividend of 4s per share. In the House of Lords, the Eurl of Kiroberler, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, referred to the decision of the Dutch authorities in the Costa Rica packet case, and gave their detailed reasons for the attitUiio they bad adopted. He said the British Crown law officers hud do clined to treat the decision as fiual The House of Commons has adopted J the Betterment principle in regard to the Toweir Bridge improvements. A fire at a wool warehouse in London Docks destroyed wool to the value of over £20,000, Dalgety and Co., and the Banks of New South Wales and New Zealand are the principal losers. New York. April 5. Twenty thousand strikers at cokeworks in Pennsylvania armed themselves with guns and cluhs, and drove nonunionists from the vicinity of the works. The Pennsylvania strikers are parading the streets in a threatening manner, and the whole district is in a state of terrorism. Two non-unionists have been killed by the strikers. The sheriff's troops killed seventeen of the rioters at the coke works in Pennsylvania. St. John's, April 5. Sir William Whiteway, Premier of Newfoundland, has asked Sir J. O'Brien, Governor of the Island, to dissolve Parliament. The Premier haa taken thia step in consequence of 17 petitions having been lodged, accusing the members of the Parliament of bribery and corruption. Several Ministers are included in the charge. The Governor is consulting the Marquis of Ripon on the point. Berlin, April 5. The Czar has decorated Count Von Caprivi with the Order of St. Andrew. Pabis. April 4. News has been received that a French force was surprised and defeated by natives of Usapa in the Soudan, many on both sides being killed. During a squall near Ajaccio, in Corsica, the French warship Neptune, with Admiral Baudin on board, narrowly escaped meeting the same fate as H.M.S. Victoria. She collided with another vessel under similar circumstances to those of the Victoria- Camperdown affair, but the impact was very slight, and no damage of any consequence resulted. Lisbon, April 5. Admiral de Garua and the other Brazilian rebel officers will be landed in Portuguese territory. Bixknos Ayhks, April 5. The Freemasons in the Argentine Republic have appealed to the Prince of Wales, President Cleveland, the King of Portugal and President Piexoto on behalf of the Brazilian refugees.