NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3312, 18 September 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, September 16, . At a meeting of the strikers in Hyde Park the Australian lag was waved from the platform, stirroimded by flowers. It preceded all flags in the procession, Four thousand men were working in the docks when the strike ended. Though Burns denies the striko is connected with the Socialists, the organs of thii latter claim that the result a triumph for their principles. Tho leaders make no concealment of their intention to Organise different kinds of labor, in preparation for a goneral strike next summer, untN further concessions are inside.

It is asserted that numbers of the strikers were kept on good pay, and that Burns did not give his services withot remuneration. In support of tbo latter statement it is alleged ;he was able to spend money lavishly during the tinu of the strike. The dockowners assert that the London papers published garbled accounts of the strike, which were cabled to Australia in order to court J popularity, while correspondents of American papers sent both sides of the question, Burns boasts that (ho result of the movement is a deathblow to the domination of capital over labor. Smith and Peter Jackson have arranged to box twelve rounds in November for £ 1000. Hnnlan is willing to visit England if Baubear and Matterson will join in a sweep stake race of four miles for £SOO. FOREIGN Rome. September 16, Signor Crispi's assiiilant proves to bo an insane socialist, The stone struck Mm on the mouth, and on examination it was found to weigh a pound, and to ha'vo been purposely sharpened at the edges. Chicago, September 17. It is reported that the police have secured the records of Dr Cronin's trial before the secret committee of the Clan-na-Gael, at which he was condemned to death, Australian. Melbourne, September 17. Tho man Walsh, who presented a pistol at Mr Dillon in tho street, was sentenced to a month's imprison, ment, The floods in the Upper Murray continue, and great distress has been caused among the working classes, Belief subscriptions have been started in aid of the suflerers, All business in tho district affected has been suspended, Tho township of Cobliam is four feet under water and the river is still rising. Several houses have been swept away and many abandoned.