HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 346, 22 June 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

A BAKERS' STRIKE IN LISBON. MILITARY SERVICE in JOHANNESBERG. THE WOOL TARIFF IN THE STATES. THE LIBERALS AND THE LORDS. MR GLADSTONE DECLINES TO VISIT AMERICA. SIR GEORGE GREY IN ENGLAND. A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY IN SOUTH SHIELDS. FRENCH DESIGNS ON EGYPT. (PER PIIESS AS!>OCIATION). Lisbon, June 21. Six thousand bakers employed in the city have struck work as a protest against making deposits of large sums as security against possible tines for selling lightweight bread. The strike has caused great inconvenience, and the military are employed in baking bread for the city. Capetown, June 21. Intense feeling has been created among British residents in Johannesberg on account of the arrest of an Englishman for refusing military service. Pretoria, June 20. The Transvaal Government is arresting Britishers who refuse to perform military service Sir Jacobus de Wet. British Agent, has entered a protest in the matter. Washington, June 21 The Senate has postponed the final settlement of the free wool question, and has removed sugar from the free list. Owing to the labor disputes in the United States, the number of workmen returning to Europe is in excess of the number leaving Europe for America. London, Ju*e 21. The Liberal Conference rejected Mr Labouchere's amendment for the abolition of power of veto of the House of Lords, introduced this session. At a meeting of two thousand Liberal delegates, a resolution was carried de manding the abolition of the power of veto possessed by the House of Lord?. Mr Labonchere declares that to attempt to obtain autonomy for Ireland will be a farce while the hereditary House is retained. Mr Gladstone has found it impossible to accept the invitation to visit America At the National Liberal Club luncheon the Marquis of Ripon, in proposing the health of Sir George Grey, said the latter's career bad revealed something ef the real secret of the unity of the Empire, and he heartily welcomed him as a great Englishman and as a great Liberal A terrible tragedy is reported from South Shields, where a seaman named Goodwin and his son were found with their throata cut, and Mrs Goodwin with her head battered in. It is believed that Goodwin murdered his wife and son and then committed suicide. The value of the rupee has been officially fixed at 13Jd till September. Cabix, June 21. M. Deloncle, addressing the Chamber of Deputies, urged that France should demand the free navigation of the Nile, and a free passage throngh Egypt. Rome, June 21. The Pope, in an Encyclical, appeals to the Eastern Protestants to join the Roman Catholic Church.