HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 88, 8 October 1894, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

AFFAIRS IN FRANCE. THE SUEZ CANAL. ENGLISH EXPORTS AND IMPORTS AN IMPERIAL CUSTOMS UNION SCHEME. EDUCATION IN IRELAND. TREACHEROUS ALLIES. THE PROMOTING OF MINING COMPANIES. A LUNATIC'S FREAK. (FRB PBBBB ASSOCIATION!. Paris, October 7. The International Conference of Railway Servants, sitting here, has resolved in favour of 48 hours per week. The Government has decided to build two great docks at Cherbourg. Nows has been received that Tonguin pirates caused a serious reverse to the French column at Tayeguan. It is reported that owing to threats from the dredger strikers the Suez Canal Company has asked France to land a military force to protect the canal. The report, however, is generally discredited. London, Oct. 6. Imports for the month show a decrease in value of £1 1,000, and exports a decrease of £834,000. Mr John Morley, Chief Secretary for Ireland, has sanctioned the employment of Christian Brothers in the Catholic schools in Ireland. Lord Rosebery, who was asked by the proprietors of the Statist to act with Lord Salisbury as judge of the best scheme for an Imperial Customs Union,* for which the proprietors offer a prize of 1000 guineas, will appoint a judge to act for him. Both the Statist and Economist protest against the wild promotion on the English market of Coolgardie mining companies. A lunatic rushed to shake hands with the Duke of York on the occasion of a State entry into Leeds. One of the escorting Lancers slashed the man'i arm, and another rode him down. Capetown, October 6. Six thousand Mputas, Portuguese allies in Lorenzo Marquez, deserted directly they had been furnished with arms.