London.

Manawatu Herald, 30 March 1897, Page 2

London.

The employers of engineers are acceding to the Union's demands for the removal of untrained workmen, and have also deoided to sus^ pend the lock-out pending a conference with the men. At the wool sales merinos are unchanged, and orossbreds are slightly easier. The sales will close on April 6th. The American correspondent of the Times says that the AngloAmerican Arbitration Treaty is virtually dead, the Senate being undivided, and President McEinley's efforts to compromise having been made in vain. The Jingoes, he adds, are implacable and jealous, and the Executive dislikes Great Britain. The Times says that the levity and caprice of the American Senate are surprising. Lord Salisbury has had an interview with M. Hanotaux, Frenoh Minister for Foreign Affairs, at Paris. The House of Commons has agreed to the second reading of a Bill introduced by Mr Pickersgill, member for Bethnal Green, for es* tablishing a Court of Criminal Appeal. Mr Justice Charles, of the Queen's Bench Division, has resigned. Harding has accepted the challenge of Wray, a New South Wales sculler, to row for £200 a side on the Thames.