NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3355, 7 November 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, November 5. Twelve thousand men working cement at the Med way, and one thousand unskilled labourers at the Severn Valley, are taking steps to establish an union, The last two hundred of" blacklegs" engaged during the strike have now been dismissed hy the Dock Companies, each of them receiving £4 in lieu of notice. All the dismissed "blacklegs" have joined tho Union, paying Gnes from 10s Gd to £1 is, At the Tilbury Docks this morning there was a slight friction between the dockowuers and the lightermen, but everything was arranged during the afternoon, The Dock Companies have virtually yielded to everything, and seek compensation' under the new tariff.

It is probable that the demand of the Tilbury dockers to receive payment during the dinner hour will be conceded, The labourers on twenty.ono of the wharves at Wapping wilj shortly go out on strike unless the wharfingers concede the demand of sixpence instead of tivopence per hour, Two hundred and fifty " blacklegs" working on tho wool floor at the London docks have been forced to pay half a guinea fee ontrance to tho union, although they had previously been placed on the list of members. They attribute the action to the trickery of the Union men,

Thc dockmen have decided not to clear any ship employing a crow any member of which is a non-Union man.

Sir Henry Parkes' proposal of a federation schemo is attracting a great deal of attention. Anglo-Colonial opinion considers the extention of the Federal Council Act sufficient to deal with the defences of Australia. The St Jumus Gazette holds that nothing has been shown to explain why Sir Henry Parkes favours the adoption of a Federal System of Union, Tho Pall Mall Gazette considers that Sir Henry Parkes has brought the federation o; tho Empire within the range of practical politics, Tho Globe fears that the dissension existing in the colonies will prove a fatal obstacle to the uniform adoption of the proposal. The ship Opawa, which left Napier on August 24, has arrived, all well, her refrigerator has worked well, con* sequently liar cargo of frozen mutton bas arrived in prime condition. Tho Opawa has made one of tho smartest passages Homo for some time, arriving within 72 days.

It is reported that tho Hon. Mr Goschen, Chancellor of tho Exthequer intends to make provision for the issuing of £1 bank notes, FOREIGN Paiiis, November 5, Comte de Jouffiay D'Abbans, late Ftencli consul in New Zealand, has been awarded one gold and two silver medals for his ethnological exhibit, and ho also receives a silver medal in recognition of his valuablo services in furthering the exhibition whilo he was in tho colonies.

Messrs Travers, Dougal, and Middleraas each receive silver medals for oxhibits of fossils. Mr Liardet receives a silver medal for his exhibits and Mrs Mair one for her painting,

Vienna, November 5,

Phylloxera is prevalent in Hungary, and has wasted quite half of the vine yards, It is also extending iu tho southern provinces and Styria,