Last Night's Cables.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5907, 12 August 1890, Page 3

Last Night's Cables.

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London, August 11

Provisions at South Wales are at famine nrices Moat is at 2s per pound. P A petition to wind up tbe Colonial Union Shipping Company has been dismissed. A procession of 40,000 persons marohea through the streets of Brussels to-day demandini? universal suffrage. Hundreds of Jewish families m Southern Russia are fleeing from the country. Irmed bauds are roving about robbing and W S r poPute e :"-HeligoUnd greeted the Fmo-ror with much enthusiasm when he FoXih took possession of the island He __£*_. twenty years after the battle,o Woerth they found themselves iv a portion to re incorporate without a war the last Sece of German earth, ati island which Sd harbor in safety the Germunnavy against any enemies in the v ™; All the English officials have loft the i 8l pr.sident Kruger states that England has agreed to permit the annexation by the Transvaal of Swaziland as soon as the affairs of tbe country are properly regulated

Synh-sy, August 11. The ship-owners and employers have jointly replied to tbe wharf laborer *■ that m view of the determination of tbe bitter not to handle wool shorn by non-U mon men they have been eomp.lled to make amiugeruents for a supply of labor, regardJos of its beinjr Union or nou-Umon. Ihe steam - .ship owners estimate that the demands of the maritime labor bodies will involve an additional outlay of £200,000 annually, which will more than swamp profits undoi tho most nourishing circumstances.