HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 7, 9 July 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

PROBABLE SETTLEMENT OP THE SCOTCH STRIKE. THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS; THE CLYDE YACHT ACCIDENT. THE AMERICAN TARIFF. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, July 7. The Prince of Wales' yacht Britannia to day defeated the American crack yao* t Vigilant by 33 .ires in a race on the Clyde. Mr Campbell Bannerman, Secretary for War, stated in the Houee of Commons to day that the Brennan torpedo had been ■n extraordinary success. Mr Woodall, M.P. for Han ley, declared that Ehe eight hours system in the Govern* ment factories has been most successful The Coal Owners' and Miners' Federation of Great Britain have informally come to an agreement on the basin of reduction of 19 per cent., for a period of two years. This decision, it is thought, is likely to settle the Scotch strike. The last Australian mails via San Francisco, which were due to leave New York on the 28 inst., have not arrived, being detained by the strikers. The Valkyrie sank in 25 fathoms of water. Thirty persons, including Lord Dunroven, were left struggling in the water, but all were rescued. The yacht blew up from compression of the air be fore she went down. The Times says the changes in the American tariff will not relieve British manufacturers. Kootze, Master of Ceremonies at the Imperial Court, has been tound innocent of the charge ot blackmailing, and liber ated. The imports for June increased in value by £-2,880,000, the exports for the same! period having decreased £870,000.