NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3358, 12 November 1889, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, November 9. Lord Brassey endorses the decision, arrived at by the Mansion Houße with regard to the strikers. The Strikers Committee have allotted £IOOO to the aid of the wharf labourers at Wapping, who are on Btrike owine; to the wharffingers resisting the compromise decided by the Mansion House Committee.

Lord Mayor Whitehead has informed the Strike Committee that he kept no accounts of the Australian moneys received and disbursed at the Mansion House, except that £IOOO was handed to Mr Buxton, M.P.,and small amounts paid to East End clergyman for the purpose of providing food for thousands of the strikers' families.

Under the pressure of the Dockers' Union, the clerks of the Docks Com. pany and foremen of the docks have formed a Union. Ten thousand bakers in Loudon go out on strike on the 10th, demanding sixty hours as a week's work, and any time beyond that to be paid for as overtime.

It lias been reported to the Home authorities that a plot to steal the Indian mails while in transit through Italy Las been frustrated,

A horrible scandal in connection with a private West End Club is reported. Ninety-eight members in all are implicated. Thirty-one warrants have been issued, but will not be executed on the understanding that the persons connected with it leave the United Kingdom. The list of the offenders include future dukes, the sons of dukes,peers,Hebrew finan- | ciers,many honourable persons, and several officers of the Imperial Army. All the latter have suddenly resigned their commissions. The offenders have fled. The newspapers have suppressed all reference to the scandal but there is no doubt of it having taken place.

FOREIGN Suakim, Nov 9. Osman Digna is assembling the Mahdists at Dongola, and threatens to march northward. The Egyptian troops on the frontier are being reinforced.

COLONIAL. ' Sydney, Nov 9. A large and enthusiastic public meeting list night was addressed by leading members of both political parties, all of whom declared in favor of the proposal to establish a Dominion of Australia, Sir Henry Parlies, in the course of his speech, said the question ot arranging a uniform tariff was a matter for the Federal Parliament to consider. SAN FEANCISOO MAIL.

A special London cable message, October 19, says Balfour's plan of Roman Catholio Endowment is that the Government designs to found three Eoman Catholic Colleges in Ireland, which shall be affiliated with the Dublin University. Negotiations are now proceeding between Jialfour and Archbishop Walsh. The marriago of Prince Statzfeldt and Clara Huntingdon, daughter of Callis P. Huntingdon, one of the Pacific Coast railway syndicate, is announced to take place at Brampton, London, at an early day, Her dowry, including the payment of the prince's debts, is set at nearly 10,000,000 dollars. Miss Hunting, don lias embraced the Eomau Catholic faith. Wilfred Blunt, M.P. for Kiddermiiirter, has retired from active service.

Green's Paper mills, London, were burnt on tho night of October 19, at at a loss of L2D0,000. An explosion took place in Bentillo colliery, at Langton, in Staffordshire, early oil the morning of the Kith October, There were 70 men in the pit, and only ten are known to have survived. Fifty bodies were found by the rescuing party a The mine is completely wrecked. An old man and his three sons were in the mine at tho time of tho explosion, and perished. Whon the news was told his wifo and mother, tho latter dropped dead from the shock, The Duke of Westminster and other large holders of real estate in London have organised a determined opposition to tho proposed improvements for widening the streets and piercing new thoroughfares, which involves the sequestration of ground in the heart of the city.

Tho London Chamber of Commerce is discussing a scheme submitted by William Smith, harbor engineer, of Aberdeen, for the construction of a railway to convey ships from ports to England's manufacturing centre. The proposition is regarded with favor, President Carnot was congratulated on October 12 on the outcome of the recent electoral struggle. He said ho was happy the Republic was still in tho hands of its friends. He believed the success of Boulangerism meant the ultimate overthrow of tho Republic, as that party was mainly composed of royalists and anarchists. He did not believe Boulangerism was dead, but only crippled, and with the aid of the monarchists was still in a position to give trouble. He attributed the victory of the republican party to the excellent ability of the present cabinet and grand success of the international exhibition. An apparently inspired article in the London Times on October 11th says: In view of the amount of English capital invested in the Sandwich Islands, England could not see them pass into the hands of any foreign power with indifference, but that their acquisition by tho United States would be regarded with more equanimity than their spoliation by any European Power, to which the British Government would never submit.