HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 141, 13 December 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

END OF THE SHIPBUILDING STRIKE. THE FRENCH NAVY. MAJOR LOTHAIR'S TRIAL. SOCIALISTIC TROUBLES IN GERMANY. (Per Press Association.) London, December 12. The strike on the Clyde has been settled the men receiving an immediate advance of a shilling. The Belfast strikers receive one shilling advance in February. Major Lothair's right of appeal is extended to the British Consul of Botna in the eyent of the failure of justice. The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,099,000 quarters, and for the Contineat 995,000 quarters. The American visible supply is 87,600,000 bushels. Mr N. C. Wallace, Canadian Controller of Customs, has resigned. He objects to the Catholics being allowed to maintain separate schools. The Times thinks his secession will render the Government's course of action difficult. Paris, Dec. 11. The Chamber of Deputies has decided to introduce tinned meat among the supplies to the navy. This will not operate until the beginning of 1897, and the meat must be wholly of French production. Berlin, Dec. 12. Herr Schellendorf, the Prussian Minister of Way. declares if the police fail to control the Socialists, it is intended to try the army. There would be no child's play, he said, as the soldiers remembered the Socialist insults to the venerable leader of the war in 1870.