London.
The report of the Free Labour Society declares, that the membership of trade unions is decreasing. Two hundred thousand seamen are registered as free men. The Times estimates that it cost £15 each to land the Maori King's cattle, exclusive of the insurance, while they only realised £16 14s. To make the traffic pay it would be necessary to send five to eight hundred, in order to reduce freight and cost of fodder. It is absolutely useless, it says, to send cattle in store condition. H.M.S. Amphion has been despatched to Casablanca to demand reparation for the outrage on the Consuls. Mr Gladstone, in a letter, expresses himself in favour of the State sellijg alcohol for public profit as against local option. The Madagascar Consul in London states that the French are rapidly making Diego Suarez, in the north of the island, a second Malta. In the event of a blockade of the Suez Canal, he says, a few oruisers could cripple the British trade with India and Australia.
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Manawatu Herald, 22 September 1894, Page 2
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170London. Manawatu Herald, 22 September 1894, Page 2
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