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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 133, 4 December 1897, Page 2

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Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright London, December 8. Tbe Standard states that Germany is sending t..r<c firs, class cruisers and seven other warships and 4000 men to Karocbau. Employers arc desirous that piece work wages and overtime flbould be arranged, irrespective of unions, but Mr Sollickfl, the engineer's Chairman states that the workmen will not accept the employers' proposition, which aims at the destruction of unions. Lord Reay and the Hob Lyulph Stanley bay« been elected chairman and vice-chairman respectively of tbe London School Board. A convention has been signed on behalf of tbe British and French Governments, providing for the establishment of a parcels post between France and India, also between France and Aus tralia. Parcels arc to be sent via Marseilles and tbe weight is limited to five kilogrammes without a declaration of value. St. Petersburg, December 2. Russia bas submitted three candidates for the Governorship of Crete to be considered by tbe Powers. Two were re jeettd aud the claims of a third, a connection of tbe Prince of Monrenegro, are being considered. Athkns, December 3. Greek delegates convened for the purpose of arranging terms of peace have accepted tbe Turkish protocol. It is expected tbe taeaty will be signed forthwith. Madrid, December 3. The priests who are assisting in the Carlist movement refuse to admit the Pope's authority in politics, Sagasta declares tne movement requires close attention. Berlin, December 3, Tbe German Colonial Couocil bas decided to inflict tbe death penalty upon persons guilty of inciting sedition in Germany's protectorates. Shanghai, December 3. China bas offered to agree tc the arbitration with reference to German domanrts for the execution of the murderers of missionaries in Shantung Peoin sula aud payment of an indemnity and tbe cost of German occupation of Kiao clian. Tbe Russian Government de chned to intervene between tbe two countries.