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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 1, Issue 26, 25 April 1890, Page 2

Cablegrams.

The London Wool Sales. The May Demonstrations. Nine Persons Beheaded. The Condition of Bourke. Great Loss of Stock, Berlin, April 20. The strike of spinners and weavers at Mulhausen, near Basle, has thrown 17,000 people out of employment. The Emperor William visits Russia in the summer, and Spain and Portugal in October. St. Petersburg, April 19. Russia is massing her troops in the neighbourhood of the Caucasus, in view of trouble in Armenia. Vienna, April 21. The masons have resumed work until the next building season ap- . proaohes. The Austrian Government have advised the masters to assist the labour demonstrations on May Ist. At Buda Pesth a procession through the streets has been forbidden, but the employes will be permitted to hold mass meetings in favour of eight hours’ labour. The Austrian Government has refused to grant holidays 'to State employes on May 1, but private firms have consented to do so. London, April 21. The price of wool is unchanged, but the impending strikes on the Continent are restricting the operation of foreign buyers. Captain Kane, of H.M.S. Calliope,, has been appointed to the command of H.M.S.. Excellent, gunnery ship at Portsmouth.

The net yield of the Victorian loan was par. Mr Samuel Mullen, of Melbourne, has arranged to publish an Australian edition of Stanley’s “ Darkest Africa.” A manifesto issued by the National Federation to the English Trades Unions insist that they should adhere to the Ist May as the day on which to hold a labour demonstration. It is improbable that the Unions will accept this, having already chosen the 4th of May as a more convenient day, A report is current that the French banks tendered for three millions of the Victorian loan.

It is predicted that the Australian colonies will agree to a reduction of the postal rates on mails by the direct steamers, and will refuse to accept a reduction by the Brindisi route. Zanzibar, April 21.

The Portuguese are rigorously boy. cotting the English residents in Kuilimane, a seaport of Mozambique. Paris, April 21.

It is stated that owing to the violent conduct of the leaders at the recent Socialist meeting, the authorities in this city have been ordered to rigorously suppress the labour demonstratton on May Ist. Latest news from Dahomey is to the effect that the French beheaded five Amazons out of revenge for the beheading of four French sentries by Dahomeyans, Sydney, April 21.

Bourke is now a scene of" abject desolation, and the N.S.W. Government is sending a special commission to report on the position of affairs, and relieving funds are being opened throughout the colony. It is estimated that 300,000 sheep have been drowned in the Walgett district.

The town of Louth, on the Darling River, 65 miles below Bourke, is surrounded by water. The residents have erected embankments. April 22. The water remains stationary at Bourke, and it is expected it will be three weeks before it commences to recede.

Nine hundred women and children are living under canvas at North Bourke, where rations are served out daily. Many of them have been rendered destitute.

North Bourke is now an island three miles square, and about ten feet above high water. Hilda, Cynical, Antelope, and Texan figure among the nominations for the two principal handicaps at the Turf Club’s Birthday Meeting.