LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Wairoa Bell, Volume V, Issue 194, 21 April 1893, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Auckland, Friday, noon. The Belgian StrikesFrequent collisions are taking pi ice between the strikers and the military in Belgium ; most engagements are accompanied by bloodshed. A large cotton warehouse at Antwerp was set on fire by the rioters. They stoned the fire brigade who protected the building. The Brigade fired on the attacking party, killing three and wounding four. Welsh Church Bill. Groat preparations arc being made for a National Church demonstration against the Welsh Church Suspensory Bill. Sermons will be preached in St. Paul’s by the Archbishops of York and Canterbury, Sculling- Glianpionship. Gaudaur, the sculler, is seriously ill with bronchitis, and it is expected he will cancel his engagement with Stansbury, The Markets Eggs Is 6d : Butter 8d to 9d ; Currants firmer ; Oatmeal Strong demand for candles Potatoes lower, £3 ; oats, no change; maize, little doing. Kauri gum : ordinary £sl ; Poor ordinary £3B to £45 ; East Coast £7O. The Shipping Strike. The dockers’ and seamens’ strike in England is still unsettled and traffic is being blocked. The members of the House of Commons hold another Conference. The Home Rule BillLord Salisbury addressing a meeting of the Primrose League said that the House of Commons would not permit the employment of soldiers to enforce authority in Ireland. The Ho use of Lords would continue to reject the Bill if it passed the Commont, for they were persuaded that Home Rule in Ireland would certainly wreck the authority of Great Britain. And if the House of Lords rejected the Bill it would he idle to send it back without an appeal to the country. He ridicu'ed the extraordinary hotchpotch the Bill proposed to make of the House of Commons. All the cultured, wealthy and enterprising among the Roman Catholices of Ireland he contended joined with Protestants in the protest against Horne Rule. Autonomy would remove the keystone of the constitution.