CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 5 March 1895, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

London. The Workshops and Factories 81l hns been read a first time in the House of Commons. It includes laundries, bakehouses, docks, wharves and buildings where machinery is employed, and provides for the registration of all workshops. The measure has been favourably received. A severe struggle ensued between the Moderates and the Progressives at the elections yesterday for the London County Council. The Moderates had a sweeping victory, and many of the divisions have gone over to them entirely. They secured 22 seats formerly held by their opponents, while the Progressionists only secured one Moderate seat. The complete result will probably not be known until Monday, as in f >ur divisions the counting has not been concluded. The Progressive Party favour municipal gas and water works, , control of trams, liquor traffic and the theatres, and the equalising of j the rates. The Moderates opposed collectivism. The Marquis of Queensderry has been arrested on a warrant on a charge of libelling Oscar Wilde. The accused, who was released on bail, declares that he has a complete answer to the charge. The newspapers unfavourably criticise Sir Hercules Robinson's appointment to the Cape on the score of his age, and also because of his connection with South African companies. Emp'oyers in Lancashire have given notice to 60,000 cotton opera.

tives of their intention to reduce wages by 5 per cent. The mine-owners of Walea, in renewing the sliding scale, offered the men 7£ per cent with 1 per cent on each shilling of advance in the price of coal. The men demanded 10 per cent ' and notified that they would cease work if it was not conceded. About 100,000 men will be involved if there is a strike. Mr Valentine, referring to the report that Sir Saul Samuel is urging New South Wales to export poultry, states that it is imperative that the best quality be sent and that the birds be large, young and well packed. The beat prices will be secured in March and April, and, he , estimates, will be 23 6d each for good poultry, and Is additional for the choicest Dorkings Plymouth Mocks and Brahmas. He advodatW a united colonial exhibit at tht various agricultural shows in tht United Kingdom, beginning in Jnnt. New Zealand long-berried wheat, ex warehouse, 25s 9d, firmer ; South Australian do, 26s 6d, firmer; ' Victorian do, nominally, 275. New Zealand mutton — First " Duality, B|d; second quality, SfcL... iamb— Average quality, 4sd : finest quality, 6£d. .■$ The frozen meafc market is very ; depressed. Hemp is unchanged, the market being flat and the demand small. The cheese market is overstocked. Australian butter, choicest quality, is quoted at from 94s to 96s per cwt. Foreign. Prince Hohenlohe declares that . Germany must build warships in order to obtain the respect of nations, as many of the present fleet are obsolete. News from Honolulu states that the trial of the white leaders in the recent Royalist rising in Hawaii has • finished. Thirty-five were sentenced to terms **•'« of imprisonment ranging from 80 to 20 years, besides being heavily fined, while 28 were fined and ordeied to ■> «. undergo five years' imprisonment. The death is announced of the ex-Khedive, Ismail. M. Percher, editor of the Journal Egyptien, published in Cairo, who ; .~ secretly prompted the Khedite ,|n his recent open antagonism to the English administration, has been killed in a duel with M. Chattellier, mining engineer. They had a dispute over the colonial question, and a duel was arranged. The two men fought, and Percher was stabbed in the lung, and died, a minute afterward. Colonel Monteil, who was in charge of the French expedition to the Congo, has been recalled, in consequence of the number of men he has lost. Three hundred rebels have been , arrested in Cuba. The Spanish Government is preparing a force of 6000 to restore order in the island. The Government has decided to reinforce the gu-rison at Cuba by eight battalions.