CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 60, 7 November 1889, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

By- Electric vTelegraph.^Copy^gbit | PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATI^Ny] y -London. November;s ' The wharfingers have decided ; t6 look out the lightermen unless the latter give; way. ' . . ..;. Mr 0. Bradlaugh is better. ; ■ The Earl of Falinouth is reported to be dying. . . . ■ ■■_. There will be.a'sale of .wool at Antwei-p on the^th'N^embeifetb qlear 23p0 bales ; from:\the.. Eiyef Plate. ;; No AustrSalian will be offered. „s S ir.^WH ßuller H Buller has' .been ojEfered^a'Gommandership in the Legioii of Honpuf.rre-" cognising in the most flattering terms'" hiß services- to: the cause of science. /■■■:■' ' r - There is a great display of indignation at the inclusion of -officials holding, minor positions in the different courts. in the distribution of Exhibition honours. ; Mr Kenuaway is. likely td : be admitted as a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Fifteen thousand men have struck, at Tilbury; Docks , because paymaiit .; is fused during meal times. r The labourers at.the East India Docks have also struck against the admission of blacklegs. " . • : The ship Opawa, which left Napier on ; August 24, has arrived all well and the refrigerator has worked ;well, consequently her cargo of frozen mutton has- arrived in" prime condition. The Opawa has made one of the smartest passages home for some time, arriving- within - ; 72 days. > : : Twelve thousand, men working cement at Medway and 1000 unskilled laborers a: the Severn Valley are taking steps to establish a union. ; .'. ', ;• The last two .hundred blacklegs engaged during the strike have now been dismissed by the Dock Companies, each of them{receiving £,& in lieu of notice. All the dismissed blacklegs have joined the union paying fines from 10s 6d to £1 Is. : . - Sir Henry Parkes' proposal of a federation scheme is attracting a good deal of attention. It is reported that the Hon. Mr Goschen, Qhancellor of the Exchequer, intends to make provision for the issuing of .fil bank notes." " , . . It is probable that the demand of the Tilbury dockers to'receive payment for the ' dinner hour will be universally conceded the laborers on the 21st. - v. Two hundred and fifty blacklegs working on the wool floor at London docks have been forced to pay half a-guinea fee for entrance to the union although they had previously been placed on the lists of, members. They: attribute this action to : trickery of the union men. ' Calcutta, November 5. ... The Compte de Jouffray D'Abbans, late French Consul in New Zealand, has been, awarded, one gold and two silver medals for ethnological exhibits. Mr Liardet ra- ; ceives a silver medal for his exhibits, and : Mrs~Mair for her painting. . ' ' Vienna, November 5. ■ ... Phylloxera is prevalent in- Hungary, and has wasted quite half of the vineyard^. It is also extending in the southern pro : vinces.- ■"."•, . ..