CABLE NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 135, 8 May 1890, Page 2

CABLE NEWS

By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright |PKIt UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, May 6. The Committee appointed to inquire into the sweating scandal recommend the extension of co-operative societies and further legislation regarding sanitary arrangements in workshops, &c, and the encouragement of technical education. Eight thousand quarters of New Zealand wheat (April shipment) haye been sold at 34s 6d. The Royal Geographical Society has presented a gold medal to H. M. Stanley. The racehorse Chicago is -unlikely to start this year. Wool is stronger, owing to the increased demand from America. ; The New Zealand harbour* loans hare experienced a decline. The &ew Plymouth Harbour Board Loan is quoted at 86. Mr Burns considers Sunday's demonstration the outcome of the assistance so liberally extended by Australia to the dock labourers when on strike last autumn. Mr C. Bradlaugh has excepted Mr Burn's challenge to publicly debate the eight hours question. ' The Committee of the House of Lords on sweating reports that the wages paid by the sweaters are inadequate, and are governed by the necessity of the workers. The hours of labour are also excessive. ! The report concludes by urging Parliament to mterf ere. The Bill effect to the financial proposals in the Budget was read a second time in the House of Commons by a majority of 82. The Dolgelly Goldnuning Company (Wales) is now being reconstructed. Mr William Pntchard Morgan has cancelled I 70,000 shares allotted him. Pabis, May 6. The Committee appointed to inquire into the affairs of the Panama Canal Company report that 900,000,000 francs (£36,000,000) will be required to finish the canal. They advise that all the maritime States should be asked to giiarau tee interest on this amount. The work will occupy seven or eight years more; ■\ i - ''■■""/'■■" ■ The trial of the members of the copper ring is proceeding. M. Seeretan asserted that his motives were patriotic, inasmuch as he wished to depriye England of the monopoly in copper. JBebxjn, May 6. The Reichßtag will be asked to vote 18,000,000 marks annually to- increase the army. , Shaw, Savill, and Co. have given way to the demand of the sailors that 48 hours shall be a week's labour while "ships are in port. In his speech at the openmg of the Reichßtag, the- Emperor said any displacement in the balance of power would endanger the equilibrium forming an essential condition for the maintenance of peace. Madbid, May 5. Bombs have been found m Barcelona.. Rome, May 6. Signor Crispi, the Premier, threatens to resign owing to the Senate rejecting the Bill to abolish bequests to religious institutions.