NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3697, 29 December 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

;EHffLISB. ' ( 4 • •'' Lovdjn, December 24. Six thousand railway hands are out on' stuke, and the manageis of the Scotch lailways have lesolvtd not to yield to the men. Tlieiailway traffic in England is ' "" paralysed. - „ r » The employeesof the North-Eastern } i Rail n ay Company state that fheyarocontonted with the number of hours ; ' - woiked, and will not go out on strike. The Noith British Company has <■, decided to prosecute thoso who have'' gone out for leaving without notice. The employeos of all classes of the > ! North British Company, the Oaledo- ' nian Company, and the Glasgow and > . South Western Company are out on ' strike, The number of men affeoted is 10,000, and only tho mail trains are undisturbed, x A coal famine is feared at Glasgow. December 25. Tho railway companies whose 1 employees have gone out on strike ,' effeied to rofor the dispute as to hours Jw of labor to arbitration, but the men ' ' would not listen to the suggestion, Owing to the stoppago of traffio , many large manufactories have had to , cease work, and the collieries on the basin of the Clyde have been closed on account of the scarcity of railway wagons. ' The strike is seriously affecting the Glasgow meat market,' the butchers being unable to securo their usual consignments, of bullocks and other 11.I l . , live stock for slaughtering. Partly owing to the want of ooil, and partly because of the paralysis of therailway traffio the sugar refiners * ' have been compelled to .temporarily, stop work. ' Owing to the strike of railway bands a number of Paisley factories ' are ceasing work. Tho railway men demand ten hours work as tho maximum for all grades, with eight hours in the'- " shunting yaids, Many claim that' ' overtime Bhould be paid as time and \ a quarter, and Sundayß as time and a ■ '■' ; half.' .■■"■■. | The secretaries of two 'English;•♦'' j Railway Societies, numbering, 80,000 J„ w men, urge neutrality at present, • V; 1 * The railway men at Hull have , struck for higher wagesand shorter J l -'/ hours, ; ■ • ; December 23.':'' ! (l ' Protessor Andorsoa Stuart;,.who"• r,;! has been investigating Koch's cure on behalf of several colonies, reports that the latterV remedy aids;, j diagnosis, and good results ,;may ; ';be' ;Ji ".'' j obtained with respeot to joints and i bones, and perhaps lupus. He con- '■ i aiders the treatmentinjurious in cases, ~.:,: i of advanced consumption,; and' ! the early stages are improved ! mora' ■• , subjectively than objectively. .;j :; ~ 3 Most of the doctors who have been \ enquiring into, .the'cure, assume' a;:. ; "/.i reserved attitude. Professor Stuart takes a quantity j of the lymph to Australia, and ho L will lecture on the treatment' and • demonstrate tho action of the lymph in ' : ':' 1 Sydney in March, He considers '_ patients Bhould' come from Australia,'.',', ~.' j It is expected that the profit from; : .'. , thosale of lymph will amount to fully'■■.;. )■ ! four million marks per annum,' ■•■?<> ■'. •■• December M. ' . j ; Intelligence has been received of a /'* j collision whieh took plaoe between the '-:"■> Talookdar and Libulia, • offPernambuco, The former vessel sank, -jg-1 and her captain and 22 of her : crevrn " | wero drowned, ■ .•..>,■ ..; [' ■ Berlin, December 25, ■,; V;/,-.,' t The State pays T)r Kooh. and thai' v/ i aßsistants who worked with him; ia" ! '*.*'-:'-; I his search for the cure of consumn- , tion three million marks for the right ';;, 3 to make consumptive lymph,, • '•"..'' Si Johns, December 24, ■ v. Severe storms havo been «•.,...j' perienced off the coast of .Newfound-/",,,, land, and 60 fishing boats. witLtheir/ :-■■ occupants have been lost. Decembor 26.' The inhabitants of Newfoundland repudiate the renewal, of the modus vivendi with regard; to;the French '.'.■■ shore, and denounceLordithutsford l .'. for asserting that such an arrangement will be satisfactory. i ~, MELBOUBNE,.December 25. Mr J, G. Duffy, PGstma3ter-6on' ; . ; . ;1j eral, proposes that the Postal and ..■', ..'•< B Telegraphic Conference should meek'.- ,y. , in Sydney in Maroh next; to take into ; <M ' consideration several matters of'great'' : *\ importance. By holding, the Confer-**-, . encein March lie hopes to" taWeJPr " adrantage of the Federal Convention '...' which meets in Sydnoy about that time. South Australia agrees to tlie proposal, but as yet no replies havo. 1 been received from tho othor'colonies-' : '' i •■■■•"■ Tho weatheris fine for the'holidays, Decembor 27. The Premier Permanent Building Society prosecutions have cost the ' State £14,000, an amount which will probably.be swelled to £20,000 Uforo > : ' t they are finally settled, -The jnry 1 disagreed on tho charpo against Mr I Gourlay of conspiracy, and he was. ! remanded till next session;- Messrs Nimmo and Stewart were acquitteri ■;..; •' 3 without a stain on their character. The sentence.against'Mr Dochertjr: •:■/' 1 will not be Mowed, pending the' 1 *; .'; l ' decision of the full Court on the 1 ' •'.'■; | points of law. ; December 26,, .. : ;- : [ James Mirams and .William i Doherty, directors of the Premier 'v | Permanent : - Building ' Association, (:; ; !i i convicted on a'chargo of conspiring to ■; i dofraud the : Bhareholders,were sen-;; J i fenced to twelvomonthsand!eighteen ; n 1 i months respectively; • .' ' 'N 1 Bhisdane, December 24. An extensivo discovery ofsilver hat ' been mado at Engham, which h)t believed to approach, if not exceed, ' Broken Hill. A valuable find of rich antimony has also beon made in the abandoned olaim at Charters Tower. Sidui, December 25, Glotious weather, though rather hot, was experienced throughout the colony to day, Snow fell yesterday at Kaindia, 818 miles south-west of Sydney. Messrs Howard Smith and Sons and the Australian United Steamship Company have arranged to work their steamers in co«opeiation, thusavoiding a cut-throat competition. December 26. A difficulty has arisen with the wharf labourers over tho payment foi working on holidays, The men engaged by the Union Steam Ship - Company and the Tasraanian Steam Navigation Company struck against Is" Gd pei hour instead of tho 2s, -" which tho owners had premised., f / The two men who robbed the < f Australian Chartered Bank, in iX suburb of Pyrmont, by detectives, have been arrwH „