NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3682, 9 December 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

ENGLISH. London, December 0. The trade returns for November sliow the imports to have decreased by £4,200,000, and in the oxports a decrease of £1,250,000. Baron de Worm 3, Secretary to tho Colonial Office, in referring to the charges made by the Sydney Presbytery, that kidnapping was being carried on in the Pacific, said there had been no violation, of the Protection Acts, and that if there had been any infringment of any regulation the Government of Queensland must deal with the matter. _ The Shipping Federation will indemnify the iw Zealand Shipping Company, Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company, the British India Company, against loss through tho action of the Labor Council in boycotting them. The firemen and dockers' unions remain neutral, Mr Justico Komer to-day granted an injunction applied for by the neighbors, against the Polican Club, on the ground of a nuiswiie arising, from music and boxing whiob go on in the premises, and also from tlie rowdy mobs that assemble. Numbers of dockers are deserting the union. Sir M, Mackenzie Us publicly treated a consumptive pliant with Koch's qure. December 7The shipping companies maintain the stand they have taken up in the present dispute. The sailors havo struck work, but the dockers disapprove of their action, Lord Brassey, on heliftlf of tlio Imperial Federation League, is pressing tho British Government to notify Germany and Belgium that the treaty clauses will be cancelled preventing her colonies favofiqtj Great Britain. Tjjp Hqn- A. W. Peel intends to resign tho Speakership of the House of Commons. The Shipping Federation declaro they will continue to engage crews on board ship until free laborers ore treated fairly, and the usual method of engagement at tho ofliots of tho companies will bo abandoned.

' FOREIGN. Berlin, December G, ■ Tho Berlin merchants have decided to found a Germ an - Ail s t.Vftlian Bank and Export (Jarapany, with branobes jn Australia. Si. Petersburg, December 7. The Czar has forbidden Russians to frequent the gambling saloons of Monaco, Washington, December 7. Incessant failures are occurring in the United States through the operation of the McKinley tariff. Yesterday a bank at Meadville, Pensylvania, failed for a million dollars, owing to tho general depression, Four other institutions at New Qrjeip Iwvo failed for two and a half millions, . Innsbruck, December 8. A girl of strong physique died here under Dr Koch's treatment of lupus.