CABLEGRAMS

Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 487, 9 July 1890, Page 5

CABLEGRAMS

WAGES OF POSTMEN. AN INCREASE DEMANDED. London, July 5. Country postmasters demand an increase of wages to £1 Is per week, and city postmen bo 245. A further number of men havo been suspended by the Postmaster-General for attending a meeting, and the Union threatens to paralyse tho postal business of London unless the men aro re-instated. THE LONDON POLICE. THE OFFICERS AGITATING. London, July 5. Tho excitement among the members of tho police force is decreasing, bub the officers are now agitating for an increase of payThe Police Pen son Bill has been referred to the Standing Committee. Sir W. H. Harcourt and Sir Robert Fowler offered obstruction to the measure, and refused to take port in committee. LEEDS GASMEN. London, July 5. The strike of gasmen at Leeds lias cost the Corporation £30,000. NORTHUMBERLAND MINERS. London, July 5. The Northumberland miners have obtained another advance in wages, making in all 30 per cent, latolj. THE POLICE STRIKE. London, July 6. The polico threaten a general strike unless all tho degraded officials are re instated and all demands complied with bv Tuesday next. THE GREYMOUTH MINERS. lie the Greymouth miners’ strike, the men refuse Mr Kennedy’s offer. They will not accept twenty percent, reduction, but say they will resume work to-day at the present rates, pending their examination of the Company’s books to ascertain whether they are losing the amount stated. Nothing can therefore be settled until the accountant examines the Company’s books. There is also some talk as to asking for a reduction to be made in the salaries paid. It is urged by the men that the surface staff is very costly, and when the output is small the cost of winding tho coal is very much enhancod in consequence. It is also likely that an attempt will be made tc get sailage reduced by sixpence per ton. WELLINGTON WOOLLEN COMPANY. A meeting of the Wellington Federated Trade and Labour Council was held on Saturday night to receive the report of the committee appointed to inquire into tho question whether the compact entered into between Mr D. P. Fisher, secretary of the Council, and MrT. K. Macdonald, Chairman of Directors of the Woollen Company, with respect to the operatives’ dispute, was being carried out. The committee reported they tvere entirely of opinion that the compact was being loyally carried out, and exonerated Messrs Fisher and McDonald from the chargos levelled against them by some of the operatives. MARINE OFFICERS’ ASSOCIATION. The steamship owners have forwarded a letter to the Secretary of the Marine Officers’ Association relative to the manifesto issued by the latter, but its contents have not yet been made public. MINE MANAGERS’ CERTIFICATES. The Mining Committee of the Chamber of Commerce have received from the Hon. the Minister of Mines the following letter : —ln reply to your letter of 21st inst., lam directed by the Hon. Minister of Mines to inform you that it is proposed to bring in this session a Consolidated Mining Bill, M’hich will provide for two classes of certificates being granted to mine managers. CANTERBURY TRADES AND LABOUR COUNCIL. At the meeting of tho Canterbury Trades and Labour Council on Saturday evening it waR agreed that the Council should not meet in conference or countenance in electoral affairs any other associations which do not make trade unions the essential plank in their platforms “ that tho Council use every effort to mako the proposed demonstration day (October 28th) a great success.” With regard to the request of tho Knights of Labour that concerted action be taken in the election of members of Parliament, the Committee agreed that general politics were outside the province of the Council. CHRISTCHURCH BAKERS. At a preliminary meeting of Christchurch Master Bakers on Saturday night to form an association the objects of the association M’ere stated as follows : To get one uniform price for bread ; that weight be certified by law ; also that the price be advertised in the local papers on the first of every month. Those present pledged themselves to give the scale of wages and hours to workmen as required. TORPEDO TRIAL. London, July 6. There has been a successful trial of the Brennan torpedo. BELGIUM AND AFRICA. Brussels, July 6. Belgium proposes to grant 20,000,000 francs for colonising the Congo. THE BERLIN CONVENTION. , Brussels, July 7. Tho Berlin Convention has been closed and signed. THAT MORMONISING MORAN. London, July 6. Moran, the bigamist, says he was divorced from the woman Spicerat. Maitland, in New South Wales, in July of 1887. N ATIONAL DEFENCE. London, July 6. The Government havo accepted part of Lord Hartington’s proposals for the appointment of a commission of inquiry into the national defences of the empire, including the formation of a council of national defence, at which the Premier will proside and which will consist of the members of the India, foreign, and. colonial officers to the number of seven.

THE NIHILIST TRIAL. Paris, July 6. At the Nihilist trial, in Paria, three of the prisoners gob sentences of five years’ imprisonment. The women were acquitted. The prisoners allege the Russian police instigated them to make the bombs. HUSBANDS MURDERED. Buda Pesth, July 6. Four women have been sentenced to death, ono for life, three to 15 years, and several others acquitted on the charge of poisoning their husbands. ELECTRICAL DOOM. New York, duly 6th. It has been decided that Remmier, the New York murderer, shall be done to death by electricity. AFRICAN AFFAIRS. London, J uly 6. A protest signed by the Commons is being prepared against the African agreement, and the rumoured intention to concede Madagascar to the French in return for the assent to the Zanzibar Treaty. It will be presented to Lord Salisbury next Tuesday. It is understood that it lias been admitted that France is entitled to compensation. ENGLISH COMMERCIAL. London, July 5. Australian wheat, ex warehouse, 36s to 37s ; New Zealand long-berried, ex warehouse, 35s 6d to 365. The total wool catalogued ia 123,000 bales, and that sold, 111,400. A PROMOTION COUNCIL. London, July 6. The War Office are appointing a Council to advise on promotion. The Prince of Wales has not been offered a seat in it. Mr Balfour says it is improbable he would have been ablo to accept it had it been offered. SPANISH AFFAIRS. Madrid, July 6. Signor Praxedes Sagasta, backed by a large majority, has stated that the Chamber and country lack confidence in the Crown. It would be difficult to form a conservative Government. A crisis was at hand. Corrova has succeeded the Due de Leutan as Minister of Foreign A (lairs. COMPENSATION AND CABLESLondon, July 6. It is hoped that Mr Goschen will allocate a portion of the licensing money to the cable compensation. TH E EG ERIA SENTE N CES. Adelaide, J uly 7. Nine thousand people in South Australia have signed a petition to th 6 Queen for the remission of the Egeria sentences. NEW ZEALAND EMIGRATION. Sydney, July 7. The Sydney “Morning Herald” states that the arrivals from New Zealand are decreasing, and hopes that this is a sign of returning prosperity.