FALLING OFF IN STEEL TRADE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9185, 12 September 1891, Page 2

FALLING OFF IN STEEL TRADE.

London, September 10. Several thousand men at the Eston steel works, Middlesboro', have been thrown out of work owing to the scarcity of orders. EMPEROR WILLIAM AND BISMARCK. Berlin, September 10. It is reported that Prince Bismarck will become reconciled to the Emperor on condition that the Emperor and his Ministers consult the Prince on important questions, he on his part undertaking not to renew attacks on the Government. BANK ABSCONDER. An official of the Berlin Mortgage Bank has absconded with three hundred and seventy-eight thousand marks. PROSELYTISING FORBIDDEN ; IN RUSSIA. St. Petersburg, September 10. The Government intend to banish to Siberia any persons found guilty of proselytising orthodox Russians. The decree is specially directed against the students of the Puritan sects in South Russia said to be the descendants of Russian soldiers converted from the Greek Church by the German ruis- , sionaries. FAMINE IN RUSSIA. The famine in Komboff is so terrible in severity that peasant women bring their children in contact with sufferers from diphtheria in the hopes that they may contract the disease, and so end | their misery. The Russian Church, schools, and convents are trying to relieve the distress among tho peasantry. RUSSIA PREPARING FOR WAR. Eleven shipments of war stores passed through the Dardanelles during the year. A strong Russian fleet is collecting in the Black Sea. The Czar will return from Copenhagen in order to be present at the military manceuvers at Warsaw. AMERICAN CATTLE PROHIBITED. Ottawa, September 10. The Government of the Dominion has refused tho admission of American cattle into Canada for purposes of slaaghter. KILLING LEPEROUS CHINESE. The Chinese Commissioner reperts that the Chinese are anxious to eradicate leprosy, and have killed several lepers in Columbia. ATTEMPT TO PREVENT CORRUPTION. The Premier (Mr Abbott) promises to introduce legislation making it a criminal offence for any person to influence the the Government in granting contracts or making appointments.