NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 86, 25 October 1879, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

The Staffordshire nailmasters have reduced the wages. The ship carpenters of Dundee have struck against a reduction of wages. There is not the slightest prospects of a dissolution of Parliament. Two hundred thousand pounds vvortl^ of gold which recently ariivcd from Australia, has been purchased m the London market for the United Slaies. Mr. Gladstone, m a speech, expressed his belief tliat the Liberal party are m a majority m the 'country, if it could only secure the. voting. A fire which occurred m Belfast destroyed the business premises of Qloviin and Co., druggjsts } Mortimer and Co., umbrella makprs j Maginal and Meek., and Young and Anderson, warehousemen. The aggregate loss was £80,0(.'0. The Privy Council has issued an order placing 'American sheep, m o nsequence of the prevalence of foot and mouth disease, m. the same category wjfcli American cattle. Mr. Tho uifis Scott, wjioj swell known as an agricultural authority, says the deficiency of the yields m the various grain-pioducing countries. mv.st lead to a material rise -m i\\e price of. bread-, staffs. " ! " 7 . Tlie steamer. Lord Olive took out thirfy engineers and.' machinists froni.j Bradford to. Philadelphia. A firm m I -the latter city has. ajs'p, engaged 100 j Bradford* riveters. . .' 'I

The wages have been reduced 10 per cent, m all the earthenware and china manufactories m Staffordshire. Of the two Americans tried, for forgery m the Central Criminal Court, London, Binghim was acquitted, aud Fortescue was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. Lurgan and several surrounding districts have been declared under the provisions of the Peace Preservation Act. The fustian weavers of Oldham have resumed work at a reduction, and the spinners are likely to follow. An order was received at Middle borough for 60.000"tons pig iron for the United States. The French steamer Brestlan, conveying 130 passengers — Italians Germans, and French —from Havre to Liverpool, en route to New York went ash«re on the Lizard ; five persons were missing. The Queen of Pundee whaling ship, of Dundee, Scotland, was caught and crushed m an ice nip, m Lancaster Sound, and was totally wrecked, -with the produce of fourteen whales on abord. The English farmers are leaving Home, bound for settlement m the Western States of America ; and the Durham and Northumberland miners are leaving for Pittburgh, Lancaster, and Ohio.