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Bush Advocate, Issue 355, 19 August 1890, Page 3

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' London, Aug. 16. j Mr Bright's agricultural produce j>ir\oliteYl&tates .fine English Wheat harvest is the worst that has jbeen garnered' slice 16t§. ■ The Exhibition, 1851, Cffloimiseioners have decided to allot two science scholarships of the value of £^5,0, tenable for, J;wp or .three years,' } t6 'the' Sydney, ! Melbourne, ■ Adelaide, .and New Zealand..University stude'ntj.'' ; Armenia, is, in. a^state of revolt. It is rumored that Eussian troops haye occupied Er^roum. j Aug. 17. ! The dock laborers held a monster demonstration in Hyde Park tofully 250,000 men being predent.. The meeting, which was yery 6i?derly/was' held for the purpose of giving an emphatic denial to the charge that British workmen y?em dependent on. -A.ustralism.con- ; Ijributions ior the support of Union principles. At six .platfoi-ms a resolutions vras carried in favor of organising all labor, to, v secure, the' passing of a law making forty-eight hours the maximum of a week's work., A resolution recording the sense of gratitude felt by Britishworking men fpr the generosity of Australia was moved by John , Burns and carried with enthusiastic acclamation. '" , Buenos Ayres, Aug. 16. Numbers of settlers are leaving their country estates. The Government have not yet issued any fresh paper currency. . An inquiry* is • being instituted into -the stability of the National Bank. It has been intimated to exPresident Celman that he will bo hanged if his partizans do not 3ho\v respect for law and order.