CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 3 January 1891, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. General Booth denies Frank Smith's abatement tileit the Social and religious funds of the Salvation Army were mixed. Mr Gladstone unveiled a fountain at Hawarden in commemoration of his 81st birthday. He received an enormous number of congratulations en the occasion. A National Union of e'erks is being formed* The railway hands at Hull, who struck for higher wages and shorter hours, have resumed work, tho comi pany having acceded them a pai't : al advance in wages; The Midland Railway Company is tending drivers and engines to the Scotch Kailway Conipa' ies whose employes are out on strike. In consequence of this action the Secretary of the English Railway Employes Uniou threaten to call out 80,000 of their members in sympathy with the Scotch strikers. The miners at Kilmarnock have joined the strikers. "At Glasgow the free labourers Hie being intimidated. The London and South Western Company's men are returning to work. The North British is the worst off, but the passenger traffic on all three of the northern lines has much improved. The non-unionists who joined the movement are dissatisfied at not receiving strike pay, and are returning to work, A sharp skirmish took place at Motherwell between the police and the pickets, who were preventing the engine drivers resuming work. The Blantyre miners have struck, out of sympathy with the railway men. The railway strike is collapsing. The Directors of the companies affected refuse to re-ercploy many of their old hands. The Thames is frozen over at Twickenham. Severe frost continues in Eugland and on the Continent. The extremely cold.wcath.ev which has been experiences in England lately has been the cause of a large number of deaths. The intense frost which still con • tinues in England and on the Continent is causing a great amount of damage, and in some parts of Ergland tho railway lines have been injure 1. Stock is suffering severely from the effects of the weather, and large numbers of deer have left the hills and forests and are seeking food at farmhouses. Hundreds of hares have been frozen to death.