HOME AND FOREIGN.

Bush Advocate, Volume V, Issue 354, 16 August 1890, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN.

London, Aug. 12. The signal boxes on tho Cardiff railways have been burned by the strikers to prevent the lines being worked. The Eoyal Engineers have been asked to work the railWays. The potato disease is spreading in Ireland. The estimated yield will only be one-fourth of the average, and fears of a famine are increasing. The Public Works Department have been requested to afford relief. ; The strikes in South Wales affect 80,000 people. The prospects of a settlement being arrived at are improving. , The potato disease hasj made its appearance in Ayrshire. Kioting, followed by a strike, has occurred among tho workmen in tho quarries on Mr Pailnell's estates. ' The Postmnster-General has reinstated 50 of the postmen who recently struck. The Dublin and W oxford railway strike has collapsed. , Silver is at 4s 3|d per ounce. : Tho losses by the Cardiff striko are estimated already •at a quarter of a million. TheAuglo-Portuguese agreemen • will be signed to-day. The' Emperor "of Germany has started for St. Petersburg.

Constantinople, Aug. 13. ! The Turkish Government has offered to, give Albania a battalion of infantry and a battery of artillery to assist them in attacking the rebel Albanians. : Berlin, Aug.'l ß. • • The fortifications , of /Heligoland will cost £1,500,000. Buenos Aybbs; Aug. 14. Uneasiness is still felt at the position of affairs in the Argentine Bepublic. „ , Washington, Aug. 14. The United states Government have purchasod 310,000 ounces of silver at slightly above the. London quotation. ... „.,.•.