LATE CABLES.
By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. I PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I London, Jane 12. Quotations for frozen mutton are unchanged ; New Zealand lamb, ssd ; Queensland beef, 2|d. It is reported that the Orient Steam Navigation Company, Donald Carrie and Co., P. and 0. Navigation Company, and the British Indian Steam Navigation Company, are negotiating for the purchase of the Tilbury Docks for the sum of three and a half millions. The Orient Company having discharged two firemen and replacing them with blacklegs, resulted in the stevedores and 300 labourers (not dockers) going out on strike. The police in the metropolis refrafijA from striking, as they fear that such a step would lead to the introduction of legislation detrimental to the interests of trade union. " The East Indian Dock Company having abolished two or three dockers' representatives at their dock 2000 men have refused to work, as a protest against the' action. A strike is also imminent at the Victoria Docks, owing to the company discharging 30 of their prominent hands. Mr James Monro, C.8., Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police has resigned, owing to a friction with Mr H. Matthews, Home Secretary. In the match Australians v. Notts' County the home team have lost 5 wickets for 159 runs. '
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 151, 14 June 1890, Page 2
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210LATE CABLES. Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 151, 14 June 1890, Page 2
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