CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 26 February 1891, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

+ London. The Shipping Federation will engage a thousand additional hands tolay, and provide accomodation for them. Neither side so far appears prepared to agree to a compromise. The number of policee on duty at the docks has been increased. Mm fM&§fl> Ihe Am§*ie&n lady

who intends to explore the Central Africa with a bodyguard of soldiers and negregses, has set out for Africa. The Departmental Committee established to inquire into and report on the advisableness of trustees being allowed to invest in colonial securities has drafted a Bill, permitting the register of colonial stocks as trust investments on certain conditions, one of which enables the Colony making default being sued for in England. Mr Chamberlain in the course of a speech denounced Mr Parnell as untruthful andjmtrustworthy. It was impossible, fie said, to rely on the assurances of the Irish leader. Mr Parnell received an enthusiastic welcome at Eoscommon. He said that Mr O'Brien and himself had done everything possible to prevent strife. A meeting at Carrick was violently dispersed by Parnellites. The Unions in their manifesto accuse the Shipping Federation of an attempt to promote a crisis. The members are ordered not to strike unless instructed to do so. The lightermen have resumed taking cargo both from free labourers and Unionists. The Shipping Federation deny that they are making any conditions with the Unions. They are sending a train full of free labourers to Cardiff. The Orient Company have secured an abundant supply of free labour, except stevedores and firemen. Some difficulty is experienced in consequence of the dearth of the latter in manning the Austral. The crisis doees not affect the P. and 0. Company.