NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3328, 7 October 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, October 4, Mr 0. M. Norwood, in his capacity ns Chairman nf the Associated Duck Companies, said (.lie recent slriko was ut Socialist movement, and its attack was nimcd nt the weakest link in the chain of employment, One of its inducts would be to obliterate "ens[mik' Mr Norwood said the surrender, of llio companies was the outcome of the assertion of Cardinal Manning that ut tumult was imminent, and of the threat by Lord Mayor Whitehead to open a relief fund, combined with the pressure of the Customs authorities and the unexpected assistance rendered tho strikers by the Australian colonies, He admitted thai the advance to 6d an hour would attract a superior class of nipii and enable <ht companies to dispense with overtime. Mr Norwood proceeded to usu some very strong language about the attitude of various sections of the community to whom the Dock Companies might naturally have expected to look for assistance, and concluded by saying that with an applause-bunting Government, an inca|iablo Homo Secretary, police who connived at the violcnceof the strikers, an apathetic plutocracy, an emotional public, . and designing., agitators, Loudon was at tho mercy of the mob. A resolution was passet 1 thanking the directors and'eeusuring Mr Matthews, the Home Secretory, Slavin has challenged Wolf Bendoff to meet him with gloves, Boulanger has taken up his residence at Jersey, The report that tho prosecution of the Earl of Galloway for on assault on a girl had been abandoned, is premature. The case will bo tried on 14th October.

FOREIGN St Petersbukg, Oct ■!, The Russian Government is increasing the plant on Kutnis railway, south of the Caucasus, for transport purposes. It is regarded as probahlo that if tho Porto recognises Ferdinand ns Prince of Bulgaria, Russia will interfere by force of urras next May. AMEifJAN. New Orleans, October 4. By an expkion of a boiler on board a Mississippi steamer,4o persons were killed,

Australian. Svoney, October 5, A severe earthquake has been experienced in the Maclcay district, Alter a prolonged discussion the vote for the remuneration of Mr John Davis as Chairman of the Labour Board was carried in tho Assembly by a majority of 26. Mr Dibbs, followed by a majority of the Opposition,left the Chamber amid cheers and laughter from the Government benches While the division was proceeding, Mr W. P, Crick, member for West Mocquarie, advanced to the table.and cried in a loud voice, "Yon ought to be prosecuted for robbing the Treasury, You are a lot of blauk Orange hounds and robbers," For this explosion of feeling Mr Crick was Sentenced to detention during tiie pleasure of the House, which is still sitting,