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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 66, 15 September 1896, Page 2

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(Per Press Association.) London, September 12. The Trades Congress demands that Government contracts shall r««erve emDloyment for British workmen only, that the Union rate of wages shall be paid in the dockyards, and the abolition of child lahour under fifteen. A boiler explosion destroyed a portion of a guuboat on the Nile at Kosbch. Tl:i! engines were ruined. Dockers are demanding 8d per hour overtime. •Admiral Hopkins succeeds Admiral Se} mour on H.M.S, Alexandria, coastguard, Portland. St. Petersburg, Sept. 14. Russia is building a naval station at Murnam Bay, Lapland, which will be coi)nccted by rail with St. Petersburg. Capetown, Sept. 12. The South African Cusioms Conference declined to accept the tariff proposed by Natal, and the delegates from that colony withdrew. J t is reported at Palapye that Captain Logard is missing. He is known to have reached Sakungani, but nothing ban been heard of him siuce then. Vienna, Sept. 12. Owing to the subsidence of ground at Benese, in Bohemia, Rhoy station, and all around for a radius of five hundred yarde including many bouses, were destroyed. Paris, September 12. Professor Gruunert and two guides were killed in the ascent of Lyskam, near Monte Hosa, in tbe Alps. The weather was inclement evt the time. The cyclone originated in the square of St. Auspice. The wind blew with a force of 860 kilometres per hour. Seven of those injured huve died.