NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3413, 18 January 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, January 10, The Dockers' Union have raised the wages of the docker* at eastern ports in order to avert the threatened diversion of shipping. The laborers in wool stores meet on Wednesday, with the object of securing the abolition of what is known as the "exertion" system; under which one man in eaoh gang is paid extra to rush work. Unless the. men succeed in attaining their object a strike is probable. The gas strike has come to an end, the funds being'-exhausted.' • Mr Parke, editor of the North London Press, oharged with criminal libel for connecting Lord Euston with the West End scandals, has been sentenced to twelve months imprisonment. The witnesses failed to identify Lord Euston as a habilue of the house in whioh the alleged offences were committed, The Princoss Maud is suffering from influenza, '. .

Mr H. Gladstone has recovered from his recent indisposition. The Berlin and Vienna press support the actiou of Lord Salisbury in connection with the dispute with Portugal. , . Colonel Malleson, the well known author, has been cast in £IOOO damages as co-respondent in the Idiary divorce case.

FOB-EIGN. . Madbid, January 15. _ In the Chamber of Deputies Senbor Pimentdl, head of the new Governmerit, said his Government would maintain the dignity of Portugal. Zanzibar, January 15. Einin Bey has suffered a relapse, dud a serioas discharge is flowing from Lis ear, The medical attendants propose that the patient should undergo an operation. New York, January l(i. Thirty thousand children are down with influenza in Chicago, , AUSTRALIAN?

Sydney, January 17, A conference of delegates from thevariousßailway EmployesAssociatisiis throughout Australia meets here- in August next to consider a scheme for the federation of "the associations,' .' .■•.'■"" '.

"; Tho vines in this colony bavo been, almost totally cleared of phylloxera, ':'■;' _Memour!le, January 17.:, ;: ; T|je Leader estimates that the

cerealyfeldior tug.season will be as ; follows ,-Qats, ■ 4,400,000 '■■ bushels, being an average of 22 bushels to tho acre; malting barley, 96,000 bushels, an average of 16 bushel? to tjje aore; pther sorts of barley, 400,000 busbe's, anayprage'of'2o bushels, Tl]bbay prop is; estimated to yield 720,000 tons, an avframbf 'l-fJo ton» to the I