CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 26 March 1892, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London.

Strong efforts are being made to secure the release of Mrs Osborne prior to her accouchment. The efforts of her friends are supported by medical testimony that the prisoner suffers from severe fits of hysteria. In the House of Commons, Mr H. Watt, member for the Camlachie Division of Glasgow, asked Lord Knutsford whether he would be favourable to a scheme rendering South Australia an outlet for the surplus population of India. Baron de Worms said correspondence was passing between the Colonial Office and the South Australian Government with regard to the introduction of coolies into that colony, but no arrangement had yet been arrived at.

The Standard says that owing to Lord Salisbury's refusal to renew the modus vivendi, the United States will seize all poachers in Behring Sea, believing that England will leave Canada to seek the legal remedy in the event of the seizure of their vessels.

Lord Salisbury has suggested as a condition of renewing the modus vivendi that the American Government should indemnify the Canadian sealers for their losses in the event of the decision upon legal points being in their favour. President Harrison is not, however, inclined to give way. Mr E. Bobertson, member for Dundee, moved in the House of Commons yesterday for the abolition of the common law on the doctrine of conspiracy, with the object of justifying boycotting and the Plan of Campaign. The motion was rejected by 226 to 180.

Sir W. V. Harcourt and Sir Charles Russell were amongst those who supported the motion. Owing to the Behring Sea difficulty the British Squadron in the Pacific will shortly assemble at Esquimalt, Vancouver Island.

Mr Burt, M.P.. one of the labour representatives, opposed the second reading of the Miners Eight Hours Bill, and expressed himself averse to legislation on the subject. Australia was the only country in which the eight hours system was successful, and this was the result of a' mutual agreement between employers and employed. In America the law was a dead letter.

Mr Chamberlain supported and Mr Matthews opposed the Bill, which was rejected by a majority of 112.

The Durham strikers show no disposition to yield, though there is great distress among the families of the men out of work. There is much turbulence among the strikers. The Salvation Army in London has opened a matrimonial bureau, with Captain Barker in charge.