NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3343, 24 October 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

, ENGLISH. '. i . London, October 22, ( • Iff John Burns, who is organising ■ tho railway employee, demands that ■ they shall be granted pay when traffic | is interrupted, The Local Government Board have . issued revised conditions in respect to assisting pauper emigrants, and have recognised the strong objection of the colonies to the immigration of adult paupers. • Messrs liothscliild will issue a Russian loan of several hundred thousand million roubles to provide repeating rifles and motor batteries, , A collision occurred off the coast of Portugal between the steamers Her cnies and Deronda, The former sank, but all the crew were saved. Intelligence lias been received that 7,000 residents in tho Tigris and Euphrates Valleys, Turkey in Asia, have died from cholera, . The New Zealand loan has advanced to a premium of 3 per cent. The Bishop of Limerick lias forbidden the priests in his diocese to grant absolution to the supporters of tho Plan of Campaign. ' Freights have been raised 2s Od p;r 100. Australian. Sydney, October 23. The Employers' Union are udvanc--1 ing tlio scheme for tho establishment | of a Board of Conciliation and Arbit- | ration. A special advantage will , ho that two months' notice of I employes geing out on strike will bo • required. 1 The owners of the steamers Centen- ' nial and Kanahooka, which collided in the harbor on the 23rd August, J resulting in the sinking of the former j vetsel, have entered cross actions for . damages. The owners of the collier Kanaiiooka, which was only partially 1 injured, claim from Mr Ellis the sum 1 of £3500, "while the latter claims 110,000 from the owners of the Karnihoolm. Brisbane, October 23. ii ftr Harry Parkcs, Premier of New h South Wales, is visiting Brisbane for d the purpose of consulting tho Queens- '' land Government on important ut intercolonial matters.

Referring to the question ot Federal defence, as recommended in the report of Major-General Edwards, Sir Henry Parkes says, " Wo want an Australian Federal Army Act empowering mobilisation, and tins can only be done by the Imperial Parliament. It is impossible for the Federal Council to create an armed force of enormous power supported by money received from individual colonies, The question of a Federal Army was practically laying down one strong immovable plank of the Federal scheme, attd the. complete platform would necessarily follow.'' In replying Sir Samuel Griffiths, in referring to the federation defence scheme said, " Any workable scheme is acceptable to me.'' The Federal Council is inadequate to cope with defence., and it was never intended that such questions should be submitted to it. The Council was only a short step in the direction of federation and tho time was now ripe for a more definite advance. As regards defence, he thought it a fitting opportunity for steps to be taken, but no thoroughly complete federation scheme could bo carried out except on the basis of a fiscal union.