Condensed Cablegrams.
LONDON. The strike of dock labourers and stevedores has prevented the New Zealand shipping Company* s^teamer Ruapehii sailing for the Colony. Thirty thousand dock workmen are now on strike. Heavy gales have done enormous damage to ttie hop gardens. Bank of New Zealand shares, old issue, are quoted at £10. The exports .shippers' hands threaten to join the dock labourers and the stevedores who are out on strike. The P. and t>. Company's steamer Massilia will sail with only a quarter of her usual complement ol cargo. The dock labourers who struck were receiving 5d an hour. They demand an increase to Gd> In Mrs Miiybrick's case Mr H. Matthews, Secretary of State, holds that the attempt to poison her husband was clear, but there is a reasonable doubt whether his death was due to arsenical poisoning. Mr Justice Stephen, who heard the case, concurs in this opinion. A large section of the pve93 and public insist on a free pardon being granted to Mrs M«ybr cK. ew Z'H land ma ton, 6id It ; lamb, 7^d. The tiilldw ■ maket is flat. Best mutton 27g to 27s 6d ; best beef, 25s 6d. The money market is excited and speculative.
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Manawatu Herald, 27 August 1889, Page 2
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200Condensed Cablegrams. Manawatu Herald, 27 August 1889, Page 2
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