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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 52, 27 August 1894, Page 2

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A MINE WRECKED BY RIOTERS. MORE PLOTS AGAINST THE CZAR. ENGLISH HARVEST DAMAGED. THE WOOL TRADE. NEW PROCESS FOR THAWING MEAT. THE BUTTER MARKET. THE AMERICAN TARIFF. DESTRUCTIVE TIDAL WAVE. | Pee Press Association. J Lond >n, August 25. The police at Barton Hill were powerless to prevent the rioters wrecking the mine, but upon the arrival of reinforcements by a special train five of the ringleaders were arrested. Mr A C. Maclaren, the Lancashire batsman, ioins Stoddart'a team. Abel has declined to journey to Australia. The Government has abolished the eight hours experiment in the Waltbam gunpowder factory. Continuous rainß are impairing the English harvest. The Mersey Harbour Board is greatly increasing the facilities for handling wool, and hope by that means to make Liver- I pool a centre for the Australasian wool trade. Tbe Nelson Bros. 1 patent process for thawing beef was exhibited at Smithfield to-day, and declared by experts to be superior to all previous attempts. A forecast of the butter market published, giving views of leading colonial and Continental importers, is to the effect that unless shipments are made early they had better be reserved until winter. In tbe trial trip the P. and O. new steamer Caledonia registered 19 knots. Sr. Petersburg, August 25. It is now alleged that the discovery of an elaborate plot for the assassination of the Czar led to the cancellation of tbe orders for the military manceurves at Smolensk. Paris, August 24. Le Temps declares that the Coomassi story is humbug. Washington, August 25. It has been arranged that the|wool in bond in America, of the value of 7,000,000

dollars, shall be released without the payment of duty^