BRIEF MENTION.
The labor leaders at Sydney are conferring with a view to abolishing the system of middlemen.
The Agents-General continue to bring before the Chancellor of the Exchequer the necessity for a Bill providing for the investment of trust funds in colonial stocks, and now urge him to legislate on the lines of the report submitted by the Select Committee which inquired into the question last session.
Dairy butter, ex Coptic, realised S4s to 96s per cwt, and factory made from 106s to 112s.
The * St. James’s Gazette ’ publishes “ General ” Booth’s trust deed of the Salva tion Army, and declares it worthless as a protection to subscribers. An Imperial commercial congress is to be held in Paris during this or next year.
A rumor is current that a revolution has broken out in the Republic of Chili, owing to the President, Balmaceda, refusing to convene the National Congress. A terrible epidemic of smallpox is raging throughout the Republic of Guatemala, and 20,000 deaths are reported. During the recent revolt the Natives of Onea, one of the Caroline Islands, killed 300 foreigners, and as the excitement has extended over the whole group, it is feared that a general massacre will result.
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Evening Star, Issue 8410, 10 January 1891, Page 2
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201BRIEF MENTION. Evening Star, Issue 8410, 10 January 1891, Page 2
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